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Long-term Outcomes in Patients with Mental Health Disorders
No full textThe presented dissertation is a compilation of four studies published or accepted for publication in international journals with an impact factor, supplemented by a framing introduction and summary comments on each of these studies. In the first part of the introduction section, the author states the main descriptive statistics related to Czech mental health care, from the prevalence of mental health disorders and the treatment gap to the utilized mental health care. In the second part, the author introduces topics in psychiatric epidemiology with missing evidence, covered by four studies presented below. The first presented study focuses on victimization of people with mental health disorders and provides evidence of the significant effects of the experienced assault and the number of previous hospitalizations on the following course of a patient's severe mental illness. The second presented study provides evidence of a lower survival following SARS-CoV-2 infection in people with pre-existing psychotic disorders and in people with pre-existing substance use disorders when compared to the Czech general population. The final two presented studies provide the first evidence of the higher risk of death and the first quantification of life-years lost after the onset of a physical health condition in..
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Long-term Outcomes in Patients with Mental Health Disorders
Get PDFPředkládaná disertační práce je kompilátem čtyř studií publikovaných nebo přijatých k publikaci v impaktovaných mezinárodních časopisech, doplněných o rámcový úvod a souhrnný komentář ke každé z těchto studií. V první části úvodu autorka předkládá hlavní popisné statistické údaje týkající se českého prostředí péče o duševní zdraví, od prevalence duševních onemocnění, přes poměr lidí nevyhledávajících odbornou pomoc, až po čerpanou zdravotní péči o duševní zdraví. Ve druhé části autorka představuje témata psychiatrické epidemiologie, u kterých dosud chyběla evidence a kterými se zabývají čtyři níže uvedené studie. První prezentovaná studie se zaměřuje na téma viktimizace osob s duševním onemocněním a poskytuje evidenci o významném vlivu napadení a počtu předchozích hospitalizací na další průběh závažného duševního onemocnění pacienta. Druhá prezentovaná studie uvádí evidenci nižšího přežití po infekci SARS-CoV-2 u osob s psychotickým onemocněním a u osob s poruchami způsobenými užíváním návykových látek, ve srovnání s českou obecnou populací. Poslední dvě prezentované studie poskytují první evidenci vyššího rizika úmrtí a první kvantifikaci ztracených roků života po vypuknutí fyzického onemocnění u osob s historií hospitalizace pro závažné duševní onemocnění a u osob s historií hospitalizace pro...The presented dissertation is a compilation of four studies published or accepted for publication in international journals with an impact factor, supplemented by a framing introduction and summary comments on each of these studies. In the first part of the introduction section, the author states the main descriptive statistics related to Czech mental health care, from the prevalence of mental health disorders and the treatment gap to the utilized mental health care. In the second part, the author introduces topics in psychiatric epidemiology with missing evidence, covered by four studies presented below. The first presented study focuses on victimization of people with mental health disorders and provides evidence of the significant effects of the experienced assault and the number of previous hospitalizations on the following course of a patient's severe mental illness. The second presented study provides evidence of a lower survival following SARS-CoV-2 infection in people with pre-existing psychotic disorders and in people with pre-existing substance use disorders when compared to the Czech general population. The final two presented studies provide the first evidence of the higher risk of death and the first quantification of life-years lost after the onset of a physical health condition in...Psychiatrická klinikaLékařská fakulta v PlzniFaculty of Medicine in Pilse
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe 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
Prognostic awareness in advanced cancer patients
No full textBeing aware of the severity of their medical condition is a key precondition for patients with advanced disease to be involved in advance care planning. This thesis aims to describe the phenomenon of prognostic awareness and identify factors that are related to prognostic awareness in patients with advanced cancer. The author of this dissertation thesis participated in a three-year project, which was supported by the Czech Science Foundation (IMPAC study, grant number 17-26722Y), which aims to map the preferences of patients with advanced disease and further describe factors related to prognostic awareness and assess its stability over time. The secondary goal was also to describe how patients with a serious diagnosis and their loved ones evaluate their participation in a research study. In the introductory chapter of this thesis, we describe the concept of prognostic awareness, methods of measuring it and the goals of this work. The dissertation thesis includes 4 publications that are focused on this topic and 1 publication that responds to the secondary goal of this dissertation thesis. The publications are followed by a discussion in which we deal with all our findings in the context of the latest evidence available on this topic. Our results prove that prognostic awareness is a complex..
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe 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
Prognostické uvědomování u pacientů s pokročilým onkologickým onemocněním
Get PDFBeing aware of the severity of their medical condition is a key precondition for patients with advanced disease to be involved in advance care planning. This thesis aims to describe the phenomenon of prognostic awareness and identify factors that are related to prognostic awareness in patients with advanced cancer. The author of this dissertation thesis participated in a three-year project, which was supported by the Czech Science Foundation (IMPAC study, grant number 17-26722Y), which aims to map the preferences of patients with advanced disease and further describe factors related to prognostic awareness and assess its stability over time. The secondary goal was also to describe how patients with a serious diagnosis and their loved ones evaluate their participation in a research study. In the introductory chapter of this thesis, we describe the concept of prognostic awareness, methods of measuring it and the goals of this work. The dissertation thesis includes 4 publications that are focused on this topic and 1 publication that responds to the secondary goal of this dissertation thesis. The publications are followed by a discussion in which we deal with all our findings in the context of the latest evidence available on this topic. Our results prove that prognostic awareness is a complex...Být si vědom závažnosti svého zdravotního stavu je klíčový předpoklad pro to, aby pacienti mohli být zapojeni do plánování své budoucí péči. Tento předpoklad se v literatuře označuje pojmem prognostické uvědomování a dobrá komunikace s lékaři je jedním z faktorů, který jej významně ovlivňuje. Tato disertační práce se zabývá tímto tématem prognostického uvědomování u pacientů s pokročilým onkologickým onemocněním. Jejím cílem je popsat tento fenomén a identifikovat další faktory, které ovlivňují porozumění vlastní prognóze u pacientů s pokročilým onkologickým onemocněním. Autorka této disertační práce se podílela na tříletém projektu, který byl podpořen Grantovou agenturou ČR (IMPAC study, číslo grantu 17-26722Y)), jejímž cílem zmapovat preference pacientů s vážným onkologickým onemocnění a dále popsat faktory, které souvisí s prognostickým uvědomováním a prozkoumat jeho stabilitu v čase. Vedlejším cílem bylo také zmapovat, jaké je pro pacienty s vážnou diagnózou a jejich blízké účastnit se výzkumné studie. V úvodní kapitole této disertační práce popisujeme koncept prognostického uvědomování, způsoby jeho měření a cíle této práce. Součástí disertační práce jsou 4 publikace, které se tímto tématem zabývají a 1 publikace, která reaguje na vedlejší cíl této disertační práce. Publikace jsou následovány...external workplacesexterní pracoviště1. lékařská fakultaFirst Faculty of Medicin
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