A Modeling Intervention in Heart Failure
Bibliographic record
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Peak oxygen uptake (VO(2)) testing is commonly used to assess chronic heart failure (CHF) patients' exercise tolerance. The test requires maximal effort; however, many participants have low confidence (self-efficacy) to perform optimally. PURPOSE: This randomized controlled trial examined the effectiveness of a modeling intervention to increase Peak VO(2) (PVO(2)) and self-efficacy in people diagnosed with CHF. METHODS: Twenty participants with a diagnosis of CHF were randomized to either an intervention (modeling DVD) or a control group. Both groups completed a measure of self-efficacy prior to performing two PVO(2) tests, each separated by 7 days. After completing the first test (T1) the intervention group watched a 10-min coping model DVD. All participants returned 1 week later (T2) to complete identical study procedures. RESULTS: Analysis of covariance results showed that compared with the participants in the control group, those assigned to the modeling intervention had higher PVO(2) at T2, F (1, 19) = 4.38, p = 0.05, eta (2) = 0.21 and self-efficacy, F (1, 19) = 5.80, p < 0.05, eta (2) = 0.25. Only partial support was found for change in self-efficacy mediating treatment outcome (PVO(2)). CONCLUSIONS: Watching a modeling video is associated with increased PVO(2) and self-efficacy. These results have implications for testing patients in a clinical setting to maximize exercise tolerance test results.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".