An alternative calculation of the consensus degree in group decision making problems

Moral, M. J. del; Chiclana, Francisco; Tapia, José Miguel Rodríguez; Herrera‐Viedma, Enrique

doi:10.1016/j.procs.2017.11.431

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“…Median is a good metric for this purpose as it is not in uenced by extreme values. 42 Further, studies on consensus development [43][44][45][46][47] advocate reporting the MADM to depict the extent of agreement. Like the median, the MADM is a useful measurement of variance in non-parametric studies as it disregards outliers.…”

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Priorities for enhancing nurses' and social workers’ competence and confidence in helping families support dependent children through parental death. A classic-Delphi survey

Franklin

Arber

Ream

2023

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Background: Annually, approximately five per cent of dependent children — aged under eighteen years — in the United Kingdom (UK), experience parental death. Nurses and social workers caring for parents with life-limiting illnesses, including cancer, help families support their children. However, these professionals have been found to lack confidence and competence in fulfilling this role. Methods We conducted three rounds of a classic-Delphi survey to identify and measure topic expert consensus on the priorities and issues for nurses and social workers when supporting families and children through parental death, The Delphi survey was conducted with UK topic experts (n=43) including lead health and social care professionals (n=30), parents bereaved of a partner whilst parenting dependent children (n=6), academics (n=4) and bereaved young adults(n=3). Results: Ninety percent (n=18/20) of the issues for nurses and social workers and 100% (7/7) of the priorities rated and ordered in the survey achieved consensus. Key priorities were 1) training in opening conversations with families about dependent children, 2) training and support for nurses and social workers to manage theirs and others’ emotions arising from conversations with parents about children’s needs regarding parental death, and 3) increasing nurses’ and social workers’ knowledge of sources of information to support families before the death of a parent. Conclusion: We identified priorities for UK nurses and social workers. Further research is needed to identify which of these nurses and social workers would benefit most from support, and how any resultant interventions could enhance confidence and competence in helping families to support children through parental death.

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Priorities for enhancing nurses' and social workers’ competence and confidence in helping families support dependent children through parental death. A classic-Delphi survey

Franklin

Arber

Ream

2023

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“…The median is a good metric for this purpose as it is not influenced by extreme values [ 44 ]. Further, studies on consensus development [ 45 – 49 ] advocate reporting the MADM. to depict the extent of agreement.…”

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“…Like the median, the MADM. is a useful measurement of variance in non-parametric studies as it disregards outliers [ 45 , 49 ]. A MADM.…”

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Priorities for enhancing nurses' and social workers’ competence and confidence in helping families support dependent children through parental death. A classic-Delphi survey

Franklin,

Arber,

Ream

2024

BMC Palliat Care

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Background Annually, approximately five per cent of dependent children — aged under eighteen years — in the United Kingdom (UK), experience parental death. Nurses and social workers caring for parents with life-limiting illnesses, including cancer, help families support their children. However, these professionals have been found to lack confidence and competence in fulfilling this role. Methods We conducted three rounds of a classic-Delphi survey to identify and measure a panel of topic experts’ consensus on the priorities and issues for nurses and social workers when supporting families and children through parental death. The Delphi survey was conducted with a panel of UK topic experts (n=43) including lead health and social care professionals (n=30), parents bereaved of a partner whilst parenting dependent children (n=6), academics (n=4) and bereaved young adults (n=3). Results Ninety per cent (n=18/20) of the issues for nurses and social workers and all (7/7) of the priorities rated and ordered in the survey achieved consensus. Key priorities were 1) training in opening conversations with families about dependent children, 2) training and support for nurses and social workers to manage their own and others’ emotions arising from conversations with parents about children’s needs regarding parental death, and 3) increasing nurses’ and social workers’ knowledge of sources of information to support families before the death of a parent. Conclusion We identified priorities for UK nurses and social workers. Further research is needed to identify which of these nurses and social workers would benefit most from support, and how any resultant interventions could enhance confidence and competence in helping families to support children through parental death.

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“…Alternative measures based on statistical variability have been used to measure consensus [5,6]. Inequality measures such as entropy [7] or Gini index [8] have been used in aggregation methods to determine consensus in GDM with linguistic variables and distance-based process among individual assessments.…”

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Measuring Consensus in Group Decision-Making Problems Through an Inequality Measure

Tapia

Chiclana

Moral

2022

Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing

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Gini index, a measure of statistical dispersion intending to represent inequality within a group, used mainly in economics, becomes in this paper a tool to introduce a new index to measure the level of consensus in Group Decision Making problems. An empirical study reveals that the levels of consensus obtained by this index are similar to those derived through the use of a distance function when fuzzy preference relations are considered. The results obtained suggest that this new index can be satisfactorily used to measure the degree of consensus in this framework.

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An alternative calculation of the consensus degree in group decision making problems

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Priorities for enhancing nurses' and social workers’ competence and confidence in helping families support dependent children through parental death. A classic-Delphi survey

Priorities for enhancing nurses' and social workers’ competence and confidence in helping families support dependent children through parental death. A classic-Delphi survey

Priorities for enhancing nurses' and social workers’ competence and confidence in helping families support dependent children through parental death. A classic-Delphi survey

Measuring Consensus in Group Decision-Making Problems Through an Inequality Measure

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