Renewal, strength and commitment to self and others: older women’s reflections of the benefits of exercise using Photovoice
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Readers should also refer to the journal's website at http://www.informaworld.com/rqrs and check volume 2, issue 2 to view the visual material in colour. This study used Photovoice to examine how 38 older women (aged 65–75) perceived and visualised their physical health and the benefits of engaging in an exercise programme. Recruited from an exercise programme designed to examine the influence of exercise on executive function (cognition), the women were given disposable cameras and asked to photodocument how they experienced health and physical activity. Over a two‐month time period the participants collectively took over 700 photographs and each participated in a face‐to‐face interview. The photographs and interview transcripts were organised and analysed using a process designed by the researchers based on other Photovoice research. The analysis revealed that the women perceived exercise to be a means of renewing the self, a way to regain physical and social strength and an essential tool that would enable them to maintain their commitments to themselves and to others. We discuss our findings in light of the research and theorising concerning ageism and physical activity in later life.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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".