We evaluated long‐term publication outcomes of a workshop on planning and writing a research article attended by medical professionals. A prospective cohort study included 243 participants (68 men and 175 women) attending 18‐h workshops on research planning and writing and 243 controls (78 men and 165 women) identified by participants as their professional peers. A total of 17 workshops was organized by the editors of the Croatian Medical Journal, Zagreb, Croatia, from 2003 to 2011. We measured the number of publications, citations and H‐indices in the Web of Science and Scopus databases from the time of each workshop to the end of 2017. While workshop participants and their controls had similar publication output before the workshops, workshop participants published significantly more scientific articles and had higher citation rates and H‐index after the workshops. For the subgroup of authors who were all followed up for 11 years (n = 398), the increase in the number of articles became apparent in the third post‐workshop year, and levelled out after the eighth post‐workshop year. Workshop attendance proved to be a significant predictor of post‐workshop publishing even when controlled for age, gender, and previous publications (OR = 3.547, CI = 2.320–5.423, p < 0.001), indicating that short‐term workshops on planning and writing research may be an important tool to increase long‐term scientific productivity of medical professionals.
Teorijski neutralan tretman koji dovodi do pozitivnih ishoda naziva se placebo-učinak. Takav je učinak opažen i dokumentiran kako u laboratorijskim tako i u kliničkim istraživanjima, kod različitih zdravstvenih simptoma i patoloških stanja. U tradicionalnom poimanju placebo-učinka podrazumijevali su se učinci koje primarno treba metodološki kontrolirati kako bi se što točnije procijenio učinak teorijski utemeljenih terapijskih pristupa. U modernijim shvaćanjima riječ je o realnom učinku koji ima svoje opažljive psihološke procese i fiziološke mehanizme. Može biti samostalan ili pak dio svih drugih terapijskih postupaka. Na temelju toga, u zdravstvenom kontekstu cilj ne bi trebao biti tek kontrolirati takav učinak, već ga što bolje razumjeti kako bi se eventualno mogao primjenjivati uz poznate i teorijski utemeljene zdravstvene tretmane. U ovom tekstu naglasak je na opisu bioloških mehanizama i procesa koji pridonose placebo-učinku. Dominantno je opisano područje placebo-učinka kod boli, ali su opisani i slučajevi placebo-učinka i kod nekih drugih patoloških stanja gdje su istraživani biološki mehanizmi placeba, poput psihičkih bolesti i poremećaja te Parkinsonove bolesti. Kod svih placebo-učinaka postoji dosta indikatora da je riječ o složenom odnosu psiholoških čimbenika koji u interakciji s fiziološkim procesima pridonose realnom poboljšanju zdravstvenih ishoda.
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