The Paradox of Family Support: Concerns of Tuberculosis-Infected HIV Patients About Involving Family and Friends in Their Treatment
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Abstract
Despite the widely documented evidence that family support improves adherence to HIV treatment, some studies have reported no benefit or even a negative association between family support and adherence. This study reexamined the role of family support in treatment adherence to find out the circumstances under which family support for HIV and tuberculosis coinfected patients promotes or hinders treatment adherence in Cross River State, Nigeria. We conducted eight focus group discussions (FGDs) and four case histories with coinfected patients. In addition, 21 in-depth interviews (IDIs) were conducted with: 8 family members, 6 friends, and 7 care providers. Data were analyzed in a thematic format with the aid of NVIVO software. Overall, family support promotes adherence in coinfected patients. Family support may, however, have a negative effect on adherence when the recipient perceives that the support is given with ulterior motives (e.g., gossiping about them and becoming indebted to the support givers) and when the recipient is the primary breadwinner and feels that this role is being undermined. Family support is useful as a tool for scaling up adherence but the usefulness is context-specific and mediated by the patient's subjective interpretation of the support givers' motives.
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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
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| 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)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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