O07.3 A Psychological Experiment to Examine the Global Impact of Stigma on Individuals Diagnosed with Type 1 Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV-1)
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Abstract
Background HSV-1 causes at least 50% of primary genital herpes infections in Europe, Canada, Australia and the USA. In the UK, rates may be even higher, as the level 3 STI clinic in Southampton observes approximately 80% of primary genital herpes infections in young women are due to HSV-1. Regardless of location, individuals disclosing genital herpes infection may experience enacted stigma associated with negative stereotypes of sexual immorality. Patients may often fear rejection and conceal their HSV status, deleteriously affecting social relationships and self-identity. Our study aimed to assess whether a relationship could be established between female HSV-1 infected status and sexual attractiveness to males, and whether a significant difference existed between male responses to HSV-1 orolabial and genital herpes infection disclosures by females. Methods The study was a randomised controlled trial of 111 male participants, recruited from university undergraduate students. Participants were randomly allocated to 1 of 3 groups and shown discrete video scenarios of a female actress disclosing HSV-1 infection. Group-specific questionnaires yielded quantitative data from visual analogue scales measuring attractiveness and truthfulness regarding disclosure. Results Pilot data showed that there may be a significant reduction in female attractiveness to males, associated with HSV-1 genital herpes disclosure, but not following HSV-1 orolabial herpes disclosure. Pilot data showed there may be a significant reduction in male’s perceived truthfulness of HSV-1 orolabial herpes disclosure by females, in place of HSV-1 genital herpes. A full complement of results will be available by the ISSTDR/IUSTI conference. Conclusion Female patients diagnosed with HSV-1 genital herpes are often advised by clinicians that strategic disclosure of orolabial herpes will maintain role relationships with male partners. However, our findings show that orolabial herpes disclosure may negatively affect relationships, as male partners may perceive such disclosure to be significantly less truthful than genital herpes disclosure.
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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
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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 | 0.001 |
| 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) | 0.006 | 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.
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