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Record W1994153218 · doi:10.1111/1467-9566.00201

Quality of life with asthma: the existential and the aesthetic

2000· article· en· W1994153218 on OpenAlexaff
Neil Drummond

Bibliographic record

VenueSociology of Health & Illness · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicHealth, psychology, and well-being
Canadian institutionsHealth Sciences CentreSunnybrook Health Science Centre
FundersJohns Hopkins University
KeywordsHappinessExistentialismMeaning (existential)Quality of life (healthcare)Context (archaeology)PsychologyValue (mathematics)Quality (philosophy)Social psychologyEveryday lifeDevelopmental psychologyPsychotherapistEpistemologyHistoryComputer science

Abstract

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‘Quality of life’ has become an important feature of research into patient outcomes, but an agreed definition of the term remains elusive. In order to empirically assess the meaning of quality of life for lay people, an ethnographic study was conducted using a sample of 22 patients suffering chronic, moderately severe asthma. The findings indicated that asthma was in general not considered to be important in the process of assessing or experiencing quality. The principal source of value for respondents was described as the experience of happiness in the context of emotionally‐significant social relationships. Sources of value appeared to be subject to variation between individuals and through time, implying that quality of life should be considered to be an existential concept. The process of attributing value to a subjective condition is best conceived of as an aesthetic one, involving an emotional engagement with (rather than rational evaluation of) everyday experience.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.010
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesScience and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.730
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0100.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.005
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.052
GPT teacher head0.432
Teacher spread0.380 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Citations20
Published2000
Admission routes1
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