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Social-psychological factors associated with' contraceptive attitudes of married women in the Kechene Community of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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The study was undertaken to explore the social-psychological factors associated with contraceptive attitudes of women in the Kechene Community of Addis Ababa. A survey questionnaire was prepared and distributed to a total of 500 female respondents selected from Kebeles 15 and 18 in the Kechene Community of Addis Ababa out of which complete data were obtained on 418 respondents. The obtained data in the study were analyzed using both bivariate and multi-variate analyses procedures. Results of the final data analyses suggested that of all the social-psychological factors considered in the study, three of them, viz. , physical crowding, knowledge about the varieties of modem contraceptives, and perceived consequences of contraception were found to have strong associations with the contraceptive attitudes of women in the Community indicated above. The implications of the above findings to the development of health promotion strategy in the community are also discussed in this paper. [Ethiop. J. Health Dev. 1996;10(3):153-160
Casual sex-debuts among female adolescents in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Background: In the era of HIV/AIDS epidemic understanding the nature of sexual debuts among female adolescents is critical in developing effective preventive strategies.
Objectives: The objectives of the study where to investigate the specific age at sex-debuts, to identify the specific reasons for sex-debuts, and to examine the self-restraining capability of female adolescents.
Methods: A self-administered questionnaire survey was conducted among sexually active adolescent females in Addis Ababa,.
Results: A total of 354 sexually active female adolescents (aged 15 to 19 years) completed the selfadministered questionnaire, of which 29% had planned sex while the remaining 71% reportedly had causal sex. Moreover, 22% reported ever use of condoms, while 24% admittedly experienced abortion. With the average age at sex debut (Mean = 16.7 years, SD=1.7), the respondents initiated sex as early as 11 years. Some of the reasons for sexual debut were identified, with 'maintaining relation with male partner's (51%), 'for the sake of passionate love'(45.8%), and 'to overcome loneliness' (40%) as the three most important reasons. Regarding self-restraining capacity, the majority of the respondents (75.4%) indicated that they had 'little or no control over' their sexuality in the face of sexual advances made by male partners.
Conclusion: Efforts must be strengthen to empower young female adolescents to protect themselves from sexual exploitations. [Ethiop. J. Health Dev. 2001;15(2):109-116
Social-psychological factors associated with contraceptive attitudes of married women in the Kechene Community of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Full text linkAbstract:
The study was undertaken to explore the social-psychological factors associated with contraceptive attitudes of women in the Kechene Community of Addis Ababa. A survey questionnaire was prepared and distributed to a total of 500 female respondents selected from Kebeles 15 and 18 in the Kechene Community of Addis Ababa out of which complete data were obtained on 418 respondents. The obtained data in the study were analyzed using both bivariate and multi-variate analyses procedures. Results of the final data analyses suggested that of all the social-psychological factors considered in the study, three of them, viz. , physical crowding, knowledge about the varieties of modem contraceptives, and perceived consequences of contraception were found to have strong associations with the contraceptive attitudes of women in the Community indicated above. The implications of the above findings to the development of health promotion strategy in the community are also discussed in this paper. [Ethiop. J. Health Dev. 1996;10(3):153-160
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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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