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Perceived barriers to accessing mental health services among ethnic minorities: A qualitative study in Southeast England
Get PDFBackground: In most European countries, there are significant disparities in the understanding of mental health conditions and access to mental health services among ethnic minority groups. Studies in the UK suggest that individuals from ethnic minorities: have complex pathways to, accessing mental health services, have longer length of inpatient stays, are less likely to take antidepressants, are less likely to contact general practitioners about mental health. It is unclear whether these disparities represent variation in mental health needs, or result from personal/environmental factors and/or relationships between service users and healthcare providers. This qualitative study sought to identify perceived barriers to accessing mental health services among individuals from ethnic minorities in Southeast England to inform the development of effective and culturally acceptable services. Methods: Twenty six adults from ethnic minorities were recruited by community development workers to participate in two focus groups. Discussions were facilitated by researchers trained in cross-cultural communication and the qualitative methodology. Thematic analysis was conducted to identify key emerging themes. Results: Two broad themes were identified: Personal and environmental factors including: inability to recognise symptoms; males being reluctant to seek help; absence of social networks; social networks as an alternative to professional services; cultural identity and stigma; and financial factors. Relationship between service user and healthcare provider including: waiting times; language and communication difficulties; health professionals not listening to concerns or responding to individual needs; power and authority imbalance between healthcare providers and patient; culturally insensitive services; and lack of awareness about services. Conclusion: Members of ethnic minorities require greater mental health literacy and practical support to raise awareness of mental health issues, and provided with appropriate information about the different services and pathways to access these services. Healthcare providers need to be supported in developing effective communication strategies to deliver individually tailored and culturally sensitive care. The engagement of ethnic minorities in the development and delivery of culturally appropriate mental health services could also facilitate better understanding of mental health conditions and improved utilisation of mental health services
Energy for life after colorectal cancer : associations of physical activity and sedentary behavior with quality of life in colorectal cancer survivors
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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
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
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
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
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