Personal experience of living with knee osteoarthritis among older adults
Bibliographic record
Abstract
PURPOSE: Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common cause of chronic disability amongst community-dwelling older adults. Yet, little is understood about the daily experience of knee OA. As clinicians we fail to understand a large group of individuals that we aim to help. We conducted an exploratory study that aimed to understand the experience of living with knee OA in older adults. METHOD: We used a descriptive phenomenology, grounded in the phenomenology in practice tradition. We conducted nine interviews with participants with physician-diagnosed knee OA, of different ages, sexes, cultural backgrounds and self-perceptions. Ninety-minute interviews with each participant were audio-taped and transcribed verbatim. We used the vanKaam method of phenomenological analysis, modified by Moustakas, as the framework for data analysis. FINDINGS: The following five themes on living with knee OA emerged: experiencing knee pain is central to daily living, experiencing mobility limitations devalues self-worth, sharing the experience, assessing our own health and managing chronic pain. CONCLUSIONS: The implications of these findings highlight the profound impact knee OA has on daily living, which have been poorly documented in the past. Clinicians should consider that the consequences of living with knee OA are significant enough to influence a person's sense of self-worth.
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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 | 0.001 |
| 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".