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L'adolescente tra sanità e santità. Ma la salute è aòtrove: nuove prospettive nel dibattito sanitario sulla prevenzione in adolescenza
No full textRagazzi Fragili, ragazzi resilienti. Il lavoro educativo nella promozione del benessere in adolescenza
No full textHow do healthcare professionals perceive themselves after a mentoring program? A qualitative study based on the reflective exercise of “writing a letter to yourself” .
No full textAims. This article is a report of a study of participants’ responses to a reflective
practice exercise about a mentoring programme.
Background. Participants’ opinions on mentoring programmes are considered a
fundamental component of their evaluation. These opinions are commonly gathered
through questionnaires, interviews and focus groups.
Method. An 18-month, multi-professional, mentoring programme was started in
2000. About thirty participants (60% nurses) were involved each time in three
consecutive classes. Participants’ learning achievements were assessed by short
essays. Participants’ perception of themselves was evaluated during the last course
(ended in 2008) by a reflective writing exercise: ‘write a letter to yourself’. A phenomenological-
hermeneutic analysis was conducted on the 27 returned letters. The
letters were inductively analysed, the resulting core concepts were labelled and then
grouped into categories to identify the main themes.
Findings. Six themes were identified: (1) the mentoring programme can be a
strategy for career advancement and professional development, but (2) it was also a
challenging experience that put participants to the test; (3) the mentoring programme
taught not only how to mentor students, but also how to be a mentor; (4)
mentoring is an ‘in progress’ experience; (5) the mentoring programme was very
positive for group processes and it created a web of professionals and (6) after the
mentoring programme, many participants felt profoundly changed both professionally
and personally.
Conclusions. Mentoring is a profound relationship that can deeply change the
mentee, and training to mentorship can affect the identity of the future mentor, as
well
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
The experience of patients undergoing awake-craniotomy: in the patients’ own words. A qualitative study
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