Alternative Therapy Use by Chinese-Canadian Children With Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disease
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The use of alternative therapies in immigrant children with stroke and cerebrovascular diseases has not been reported. We identified immigrant and first-generation Chinese-Canadian children with stroke and cerebrovascular diseases in a pediatric stroke clinic and used standardized questionnaires to interview their parents about alternative therapy use. The chi-square test was used to assess the associations of parental educational level and foreign birth in the child with alternative therapy use. We identified 17 children, 9 boys and 8 girls. Six were immigrants to Canada and 11 were Canadian born. Nine of 17 families (53%) reported using alternative therapies. All 9 used Chinese herbs, but only 3 were able to report the names of specific preparations. Four families were using medications that had the potential to affect coagulation. Documentation of alternative therapy use was found in the medical charts of 3 of the 9 patients. Three families reported feeling uncomfortable discussing alternative therapy use with their physicians. We did not see an association between alternative therapy use and parental educational level or foreign birth in the child. Physicians should be aware that parents of children with stroke may be using alternative therapies to treat their children and may be unwilling or unable to report all therapies used.
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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) | 0.000 | 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".