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From Centrecourt to Everyday Life : A qualitative interview study about the experience of a career in elite tennis
No full textSyftet med studien var att undersöka eventuella bestående skador hos svenska elittennisspelare efter avslutad karriär. Det sekundära syftet var att fördjupa kunskapen om elittennisspelares upplevelse av sin fysiska hälsa ur ett långsiktigt perspektiv. Frågeställningarna var (1) Hur upplever före detta elittennisspelare eventuella bestående fysiska besvär efter avslutad karriär? (2) Hur upplevs den långsiktiga hälsan hos före detta elittennisspelare efter avslutad karriär? För att besvara frågeställningarna har en kvalitativ metod med semistrukturerade intervjuer använts. Sex (två kvinnor, fyra män) före detta elittennisspelare från Sverige rekryterades genom ett bekvämlighetsurval. Deltagarna hade en medianålder på 54 år. Intervjuerna transkriberades och analyserades genom en tematisk innehållsanalys. Den tematiska innehållsanalysen resulterade i fyra teman: (1) Upplevelser kring skador präglas av identifiering, prevention och minimering av skaderisker, (2) Anledningar till karriärsavslut är mångfacetterade, (3) Psykologiska aspekter formar elittennisspelarens vardag, innan och efter karriär samt (4) Livet efter en elittenniskarriär anpassas efter behov. Resultatet av studien visar att före detta elittennisspelare i Sverige ofta drabbas av bestående skador som påverkar deras fysiska och psykiska hälsa under och efter karriären. Skador påverkar deras beslut och livsstil, men trots detta mår de flesta bra efter karriären och är optimistiska inför framtiden. Studien ger insikter om de långsiktiga effekterna av en elitidrottskarriär som kan vara till nytta för idrottare, tränare och idrottsmedicinska experter. Purpose and Research QuestionsThe aim of the study was to investigate any permanent injuries among Swedish elite tennis players after retirement. The secondary objective was to deepen understanding of elite tennis players' experience of their physical health from a long-term perspective. The research questions were (1) How do former elite tennis players experience any permanent physical ailments after retirement? (2) How is the long-term health of former elite tennis players perceived after retirement?MethodTo address the research questions, a qualitative method with semi-structured interviews was employed. Six former elite tennis players from Sweden (two women, four men) were recruited through convenience sampling. The participants had a median age of 54 years. The interviews were transcribed and analyzed through thematic content analysis.ResultsThematic content analysis resulted in four themes: (1) Experiences surrounding injuries are characterized by the identification, prevention, and minimisation of injury risks, (2) Reasons for career termination are multifaceted, (3) Psychological aspects shape the daily life of elite tennis players pre- and post-career, and (4) Life after an elite tennis career is adapted as needed.ConclusionThe study's findings indicate that former elite tennis players in Sweden often experience long lasting injuries that affect their physical and mental health during and after their careers. Injuries influence their decisions and lifestyle, yet most of them fare well after retirement and hold optimistic views for the future. The study provides insights into the long-term effects of an elite sports career that can be beneficial for athletes, coaches, and sports medicine experts
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
From Centrecourt to Everyday Life : A qualitative interview study about the experience of a career in elite tennis
No full textSyftet med studien var att undersöka eventuella bestående skador hos svenska elittennisspelare efter avslutad karriär. Det sekundära syftet var att fördjupa kunskapen om elittennisspelares upplevelse av sin fysiska hälsa ur ett långsiktigt perspektiv. Frågeställningarna var (1) Hur upplever före detta elittennisspelare eventuella bestående fysiska besvär efter avslutad karriär? (2) Hur upplevs den långsiktiga hälsan hos före detta elittennisspelare efter avslutad karriär? För att besvara frågeställningarna har en kvalitativ metod med semistrukturerade intervjuer använts. Sex (två kvinnor, fyra män) före detta elittennisspelare från Sverige rekryterades genom ett bekvämlighetsurval. Deltagarna hade en medianålder på 54 år. Intervjuerna transkriberades och analyserades genom en tematisk innehållsanalys. Den tematiska innehållsanalysen resulterade i fyra teman: (1) Upplevelser kring skador präglas av identifiering, prevention och minimering av skaderisker, (2) Anledningar till karriärsavslut är mångfacetterade, (3) Psykologiska aspekter formar elittennisspelarens vardag, innan och efter karriär samt (4) Livet efter en elittenniskarriär anpassas efter behov. Resultatet av studien visar att före detta elittennisspelare i Sverige ofta drabbas av bestående skador som påverkar deras fysiska och psykiska hälsa under och efter karriären. Skador påverkar deras beslut och livsstil, men trots detta mår de flesta bra efter karriären och är optimistiska inför framtiden. Studien ger insikter om de långsiktiga effekterna av en elitidrottskarriär som kan vara till nytta för idrottare, tränare och idrottsmedicinska experter. Purpose and Research QuestionsThe aim of the study was to investigate any permanent injuries among Swedish elite tennis players after retirement. The secondary objective was to deepen understanding of elite tennis players' experience of their physical health from a long-term perspective. The research questions were (1) How do former elite tennis players experience any permanent physical ailments after retirement? (2) How is the long-term health of former elite tennis players perceived after retirement?MethodTo address the research questions, a qualitative method with semi-structured interviews was employed. Six former elite tennis players from Sweden (two women, four men) were recruited through convenience sampling. The participants had a median age of 54 years. The interviews were transcribed and analyzed through thematic content analysis.ResultsThematic content analysis resulted in four themes: (1) Experiences surrounding injuries are characterized by the identification, prevention, and minimisation of injury risks, (2) Reasons for career termination are multifaceted, (3) Psychological aspects shape the daily life of elite tennis players pre- and post-career, and (4) Life after an elite tennis career is adapted as needed.ConclusionThe study's findings indicate that former elite tennis players in Sweden often experience long lasting injuries that affect their physical and mental health during and after their careers. Injuries influence their decisions and lifestyle, yet most of them fare well after retirement and hold optimistic views for the future. The study provides insights into the long-term effects of an elite sports career that can be beneficial for athletes, coaches, and sports medicine experts
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
Kränkande bemötande från patienter : Har fysioterapeutens kön inverkan på bemötandet från patienten? - en enkätstudie
No full textBakgrund: Interaktion och bemötande är viktiga i vården. Hur en person uppfattar ett bemötande är individuellt och beror på tidigare erfarenheter och social status. Bio-psyko-sociala faktorer kan ha inverkan på interaktionen då patienters beteende kan påverkas av sjukdomstillstånd och tidigare erfarenheter. Syfte: Att undersöka hur fysioterapeuter som arbetar inom Akademiska sjukhuset och Uppsala kommun upplevde att de blivit kränkande bemötta av patienter utifrån sitt kön och om patientens sjukdomstillstånd och ålder har betydelse i bemötandet. Design och metod: En kvantitativ tvärsnittsstudie med en komparativ och deskriptiv design. Sammanlagt 84 fysioterapeuter från Akademiska sjukhuset och Uppsala kommun besvarade en egenkonstruerad webbenkät. Resultatet analyserades med beskrivande statistik, Chi-2 test och kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Resultat: En hög andel av fysioterapeuterna (83%) hade erfarenheter av kränkande bemötande och ingen signifikant skillnad sågs mellan könen eller arbetsplats gällande dessa erfarenheter. Störst andel av de manliga fysioterapeuterna rapporterade att de upplevt hot och våld från patienter medan kvinnliga fysioterapeuter uppgav att de fick utstå mer sexuella trakasserier. Patienter med smärta eller demens var de patientgrupper som flest fysioterapeuter upplevde sig blivit kränkande bemötta av. Konklusion: Kränkningar mot fysioterapeuter är vanligt förekommande oavsett kön. Patientens sjukdomstillstånd har stor betydelse vid kränkande beteende mot fysioterapeuten. Det är viktigt att uppmärksamma ämnet både i utbildning och inom yrkeslivet. Fler studier krävs för att styrka resultatet.Background: Interaction and communication are important in health care. How a person perceives a response is individual and depends on past experiences and social status. Bio-psycho-social factors can affect the interaction as patients' behavior is affected by disease states and previous experiences. Purpose: To investigate how physiotherapists working at Akademiska Sjukhuset and Uppsala municipality experienced how they were treated by patients based on their gender and if the patient's disease states and age can affect the interaction. Design and method: A quantitative cross-sectional study with a comparative and descriptive design. A total of 84 physiotherapists from Akademiska Sjukhuset and Uppsala municipality answered a self-designed web questionnaire survey. The result was analyzed with descriptive statistics, Chi-2 test and qualitative content analysis. Result: A high proportion of physiotherapists (83%) had experience of abusive treatment and no significant difference was seen between the sexes or the workplace regarding these experiences. Largest share of male physiotherapists reported that they experienced threats and violence from patients while female physiotherapists stated that they suffered more sexual harassment. Physiotherapists experienced the most abusive treatment of patients with pain or dementia. Conclusion: Violations against physiotherapists are commonplace regardless of gender. The patient's disease condition is of great importance in the case of offensive behavior against the physiotherapist. It´s important to pay attention to the subject both in education and in professional life. More studies are required to strengthen the results
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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