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- Hedenrud, Tove, 1967, et al.
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Beliefs about medicines and adherence among Swedish migraineurs.
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In: The 13th Congress of the International Headache Society, Stockholm, juni 2007..
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Objective The aim was to analyze whether beliefs about medicines are associated with adherence to prophylactic medication among Swedish migraineurs. Methods A questionnaire was distributed consecutively to migraineurs attending a tertiary clinic. All participants were prescribed prophylactic medication. The questionnaire comprised e.g. background questions, beliefs about medicines (BMQ), and self-reported adherence (MARS). The General BMQ comprises three subparts: General Harm, General Overuse, and General Benefit. The specific part of the BMQ has two subparts: Specific Necessity and Specific Concerns. For the BMQ Specific, a necessity–concerns differential was calculated for each participant. A logistic regression analysis was performed to analyze the association between beliefs about medicines and adherence to prophylactic medication. Results Of the 175 participants, 15% were male and more than half of the participants were aged 45 years and over. Fifty percent had a university degree. Sixty-four percent were considered adherent. There was no significant difference in adherence between gender, age groups, or by educational level. Respondents with only compulsory school were less concerned about the long-term effects of medications and had a higher necessity–concern differential. In the logistic regression analysis, no variable was significantly associated with adherence. Conclusions The present study showed no association between beliefs about medication and adherence. We recommend that lack of adherence to migraine prophylactic drugs should be considered more often, looked for, and addressed in order to identify sufferers with an unnecessarily high migraine-associated disability. This assumes greater attention to the problem amongst both physicians and researchers in all countries.
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- Jonsson Severson, Pernilla, 1971-
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A historiography of migration in Nordic public service-television research
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In: Presented at the ECREA 8th European Communication Conference, Communication and Trust: building safe, sustainable and promising futures, Online, September 6-9, 2021 (moved from October 2-5, 2020).
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- The purpose of this study is to identify and discuss aspects of Nordic public service tv (NPSTV) research on what values (normative statements on what is at stake and what is considered worth protecting in relation to understandings of the public service remit) are stated as particularly relevant in distribution changes of teletext, digital tv and play services. The historiography shows a movement towards emphasising personalised media, bringing universal access to the many. It is universal service as a trust-worthy PSB service for the majority, not the minority, that protected. The ambitious intentions of NPSTV research to shed light on and not at least protect the Nordic, the European and the general aim of PSB, has motivated safeguarding of the fundamentals: access in the distribution and the financing. These intellectual pleasures in form of considerable anxieties concerning PSB are still predominant. Solidarity towards the few, or caring for under-privileged groups is downplayed. Protecting minority languages or minority issues are not sought after today, as was the case with teletext. Teletext in all Nordic countries included the value of being a special service for the hearing impaired. Research however did not mirror society, doing studies of teletext. DTV and play services are primarily studied as change regarding economic growth, keeping market shares and PSB being relevant in a digital media landscape. The nation-centric and media-centric PSB research approach seem to have become norm again through this development.This can be seen as research being actors of change, as well as being witnesses to society. It is argued that NPSTV research is both part of a slowly crystallising cultural practice of protecting PSB, and particularly rising to the occasion of triggering events: whatever technology that comes PSB will need to survive. Research show a particular interest in the legal, the structure of the industry organizations and the PSB institutions. However, PSB values like the minorities issue, and small Nordic countries, or the community building aspect of PSB is, as mentioned, lacking.What this study shows is the need to search for, see and acknowledge and also act on the gaps and distortions that exist. Why are there no strong critical reactions to NPSTV research excluding countries and minorities? Why is there no insight and directions towards how PSB should be striving for coherence of all publics and how coherence strategies mean not only one for all, but also many variances for differences as well as particular content aiming to create a sense of belonging and community?
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- Jonsson Severson, Pernilla, 1971-
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Exploring journalists and researchers use of social media methods
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In: NordMedia2021 conference, Crisis and Resilience: Nordic Media Research in the Frontline, online 18–20 August 2021.
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- This study explores journalists' and researchers’ use of social media methods. An exploratory approach guided by validity and reliability elucidates the nature of “good social media methods for journalism”. Empirical material is my invitations for conferences and courses for journalists, journalism researchers, and digital methods researchers; my teaching and research in these fields. Furthermore, I engage my experiences from being a conference participant in a journalist conference for primary practitioners and researchers. Journalism researchers use social media methods to study how journalism changes through social media by researching journalism forms on specific social media platforms. The findings suggest that, for journalists, suitable social media methods as validity and reliability depend on revealing the online and for fact-checking the validity in the truth-claims to the “offline world”. In this, good social media methods become valid and reliable on their own and as “given”. Whether the social media methods tools have built-in biases or not, and whether all journalism, not only the studied social media, is changing, is not as discussed in journalism research or for practitioners, as in digital methods and critical data studies. Future research is needed to understand how broad and essential the issue of online research methods concernsthe built-in hidden biases in both platforms and tools.
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- Linde, Mattias, 1966, et al.
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Adherence to migraine prophylaxis at a Swedish tertiary clinic. A cross-sectional study of influence of disease features
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In: The 13th Congress of the International Headache Society, Stockholm, juni 2007.
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- Introduction The efficacy of mainly the more recently developed prophylactic treatments of migraine have been well established in a large number of randomised controlled trials. However, such trials tend to focus on the effects of the drug in an ideal setting and rather underestimate the impact of non-compliance, which generally escapes detection by the physician. This poorly understood phenomenon was further looked at in a naturalistic setting. Methods A consecutive sample of 175 migraineurs (85% women, mean age 4512, range 19-79 years) with a current prescription of pharmacological prophylaxis were studied at a Swedish headache specialist clinic. Adherence was self-reported with the Medication Adherence Report Scale (MARS, possible range of scores 5-25). Logistic regression analysis was performed to analyze the association between MARS and frequency of attacks, number of days with migraine per month, attack duration, presence of prodrome (68%), presence of aura (41%, some or all attacks), mean intensity of pain, and recovery between attacks. Results The mean frequency of migraine was 6.5 days / month, and 68% did not recover completely interictally. The mean MARS score was 22.52.8. One third (35%) was not highly adherent. Neither demographic characteristics, nor any of the studied disease specific variables were significantly associated with adherence. Discussion The full benefit of prophylactic migraine medication cannot be realised at currently achieved levels of adherence. Characteristics of the headaches per se are the starting point of patients’ decision-making. However, the present study indicates that other factors play a more important role in this complicated process.
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