EFFECTIVENESS OF A COMMUNITY MOBILIZATION STRATEGY IN AFFECTING HEALTH BEHAVIOURS OF YOUNG WOMEN
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Young women are subject to social pressure to adopt health risking behaviors such as inactivity, smoking, and inadequate nutrient intake. With the declining influence of parents as young women mature, they become easy targets for marketing campaigns that undermine their chances for a healthy lifestyle. This study determined the effectiveness of a community mobilization strategy, “Fly Higher,” in positively affecting the health behaviors (physical activity, smoking, nutrition) of young women. The program involved training groups of young women (core trainers) to facilitate one day workshops to prepare “school champion teams” (3–5 young women and their adult advisors) to initiate health promotion activities in their communities in conjunction with health districts. Seventy-five participants including young women aged 13–18 yrs, their advisors, health district personnel, and community representatives from seven health districts participated in the study. Qualitative strategy of naturalistic inquiry, qualitative data collection (semi-structured interviews) and content analysis was used. Results showed that young women: (1) began making healthier lifestyle choices by increasing physical activity, decreasing or stopping smoking, and eating a healthier diet; (2) became motivated to address health issues pertinent to themselves and their communities; (3) developed skills to champion school and community based initiatives; and (4) developed personal skills such as self-respect and self confidence. In addition, healthier school and community environments were fostered and an enhanced support for healthier lifestyle choices of young women was observed. Community mobilized health initiatives, which focus on young women leading young women, can be effective in positively affecting the health knowledge, attitudes and behaviors of this age group and the communities in which they live. Supported by the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Saskatchewan
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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 | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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".