‘Tails’ – A fairy tale on furry tails: A 15-year theatre experience for hospitalized children created by health professionals
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Abstract
The present article describes an innovative theatre production that has been running in The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario, for the past 15 years. It is directed at, and created for, hospitalized children and their families. The effects of hospitalization on children and their families are reviewed, and the benefits of humour and support during the stressful time the children have to spend in the hospital is highlighted. The play and its message, as well as possible health benefits, are also described. Theatre productions may help ease the anxiety felt by children and their families concerning illness, hospitalization and the associated medical procedures. Theatre may also assist in increasing patients' compliance with medical procedures and follow-up. The play described is the first regular children's theatre created by medical staff for hospitalized children. It is valuable because it may result in other hospitals following this example, and because it may generate research on the effects of theatre on patients and their families. Le présent article décrit une production théâtrale novatrice produite depuis 15 ans au Hospital for Sick Children de Toronto, en Ontario. Ce sont des enfants hospitalisés et leur famille qui dirigent cette production créée à leur intention. On examine les effets de l'hospitalisation sur les enfants et leur famille et les bienfaits de l'humour et du soutien pendant la période stressante que les enfants doivent passer à l'hôpital. On décrit également la pièce de théâtre, son message et ses bienfaits possibles sur la santé. Les productions théâtrales aident peut-être à soulager le sentiment d'anxiété que ressentent les enfants et leur famille au sujet de la maladie, de l'hospitalisation et des interventions médicales connexes. Le théâtre contribue peut-être également à accroître la compliance du patient aux interventions médicales et au suivi. La production théâtrale décrite est la première pièce de théâtre régulière pour enfants créée par du personnel médical pour les enfants hospitalisés. Il est utile d'en parler parce que d'autres hôpitaux pourraient emboîter le pas et que des recherches pourraient en découler sur les effets du théâtre auprès des patients et de leur famille.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
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".