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Treatment of comorbid anxiety disorders and depression
No full textThe close relationship between anxiety and depression has been a long-standing clinical observation. It may be practically advantageous to view anxiety and depression as two symptomatic stages of the same affective disorder, with the ratio of anxious and depressive symptoms varying over time, so that assessment and treatment depend on when, in the course of affective illness, the observation is made and on comprehensive evaluation of all clinical variables that may be subsumed under the rubric of clinical judgment. Selection of treatment according to evidence-based medicine and treatment guidelines relies primarily on randomized controlled trials and meta-analyses. This chapter first discusses the assessment of comorbidity and the differential diagnosis of depressive symptoms in the setting of anxiety disorders. It then refers to the main treatment options when a major depressive disorder is diagnosed and how they can be applied according to clinical presentations in the adult population
Appendix_A – Supplemental material for Psychometric Properties and Measurement Invariance Across Gender and Age-Group of the Perseverative Thinking Questionnaire–Children (PTQ-C) in Colombia
No full textSupplemental material, Appendix_A for Psychometric Properties and Measurement Invariance Across Gender and Age-Group of the Perseverative Thinking Questionnaire–Children (PTQ-C) in Colombia by Francisco J. Ruiz, Daniela M. Salazar, Juan C. Suárez-Falcón, Andrés Peña-Vargas, Thomas Ehring, María L. Barreto-Zambrano and María P. Gómez-Barreto in Assessment</p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
The cost-effectiveness of treatments for anxiety disorders
No full textAnxiety disorders are one of the most common mental disorders and contribute substantially to the global burden of disease. Although treatment rates for anxiety disorders are low, they are associated with a high utilization of healthcare services related to investigation and treatment for somatic manifestations. This can incur substantial healthcare expenditure. There have been 33 studies evaluating the cost-effectiveness of various treatment interventions for anxiety disorders (up until November 2012). While the focus of this chapter is the cost-effectiveness of anxiety treatments, it is important to note that there have been studies that have evaluated the cost-effectiveness of interventions designed to prevent anxiety disorders. The studies that have used techniques that aim to enhance comparability have consistently demonstrated that there are very cost-effective pharmacological and nonpharmacological treatments available for anxiety disorders. While treatments for some disorders are well evaluated, such as GAD and panic disorder, others are not
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