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Investigating clinician perspectives regarding reasons behind the rise in involuntary psychiatric treatment in Queensland
No full textBackground: In 2008 Australia signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This demonstrates a commitment to promoting fundamental human rights including service users’ rights to autonomy, dignity, and self-determination, and thus challenging the traditional medical model of mental health service delivery. Additionally, the Mental Health Act (Qld) 2016 was intended to facilitate the use of least coercive treatment options and support a human-rights based approach to psychiatric treatment in Queensland. Instead, since this legislative reform, rates of involuntary psychiatric treatment in Queensland have continued to rise.
Objectives: To understand the opinions and attitudes of mental health clinicians and administrators regarding reasons behind increased involuntary psychiatric treatment and impediments to use of voluntary treatment in Queensland.
Methods: Purposive sampling was used to recruit qualified mental health practitioners from psychiatry, psychology, social work and nursing. Focus groups facilitated the sharing of views regarding barriers to the use of least restrictive psychiatric treatment. Sessions were recorded and transcribed, and later coded and analysed to identify predominant themes.
Findings: Clinicians identified numerous barriers to voluntary psychiatric treatment options. Six main themes included risk aversion, systemic service deficiencies, lack of voluntary alternatives, increased substance use, legislative shortcomings and barriers to enacting legislative criteria (Wild K et. al. 2025).
Conclusions: Clinicians perceived increasing rates of involuntary psychiatric treatment to be a consequence of are source limited system dominated by a risk averse culture that obstructs less restrictive practice.
Reference: Wild, K., Sawhney, J., Wyder, M., Sebar, B. and Gill, N. Reasons behind the rise in involuntary psychiatric treatment under mental health act 2016, Queensland, Australia–Clinician perspectives. InternationalJournal of Law and Psychiatry, 2025, 98; 102061No Full Tex
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
Retrospective study on necrotizing enteritis in piglets in Switzerland
No full textThe re-emergence of necrotizing enteritis (NE) in Swiss pig breeding farms raised concern that, besides C. perfringens type C strains, additional C. perfringens toxinotypes might cause this disease. Therefore we retrospectively investigated the association of NE with C. perfringens type C or different C. perfringens toxinotypes. We evaluated pathological lesions, routine diagnostic bacteriology results, and multiplex real-time PCR analyses from DNA extracts of archived intestinal samples of 199 piglets from our diagnostic case load. 96.5% of NE cases and 100% of herds affected by NE were positive for C. perfringens type C genotypes. Animals without necrotizing enteritis revealed a significantly lower detection rate of type C genotypes. Non affected piglets showed a high prevalence for beta-2-toxin positive C. perfringens type A strains. Collectively, our data indicate that outbreaks of NE in piglets in Switzerland cannot be attributed to newly emerging pathogenic toxinotypes, but are due to a spread of pathogenic C. perfringens type C strains
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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