Knowledge and experiences of andropause among men in Lagos, Nigeria.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Andropause is increasingly becoming a global health concern as the world's population of aging males increases. OBJECTIVE: To describe the level of knowledge and experiences of as well as the responses of adult men to andropause in Lagos, Nigeria. METHODS: Structured questionnaires were administered to 250 adult males selected by multistage sampling in Mushin area of Lagos, Nigeria. RESULTS: Many of the respondents (45.1%) had no knowledge of andropause although most (96%) had experienced a wide variety of the characteristic physical changes. The main symptoms reported occurred mainly between the ages of 54-62 years. Increasing age, not working and lack of formal education were significantly associated with an increased number of a variety of symptoms experienced (p<0.001). Many of the respondents were indifferent about the symptoms they experienced, as they were accepted as a normal phase of the aging process. CONCLUSION: Although there has been growing interest in andropause by health careproviders, pharmaceutical companies and the general public over the years, knowledge of its aetiology, diagnosis and management among black men is still incomplete. The findings of this study underscore the need for health education in order to increase the knowledge of and improve the quality of care of andropause among adult men in Nigeria.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".