An examination of the beliefs, attitudes and counselling practices of paediatric oncologists toward physical activity: A provincial survey
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Abstract
With an increasing population of childhood cancer survivors and a growing recognition of the long-term effects of diagnosis and treatment, it is imperative that modifiable risk factors for long-term health and disease comorbidity be identified and addressed. Physical activity is one therapy that is gaining credibility in enhancing quality of life and reducing the burden of disease. To examine the beliefs, attitudes and counselling practices of a group of Alberta-based paediatric oncologists. All Alberta-based physicians with a known specialty in paediatric oncology were approached and asked to complete a onetime, mail-out survey. All responding physicians regarded both personal exercise and physical activity for childhood cancer survivors as moderately to extremely important. Importantly, one-half of the respondents believed that there is no adverse risk associated with physical activity in this survivor group. While the bulk of physicians report prescribing physical activity, few believe that their patients actually follow these recommendations. Responding oncologists acknowledge the importance of physical activity for all survivors; however, future research is needed to better understand how to best promote healthy active living within this group. Étant donné la population croissante d'enfants qui survivent au cancer et la prise de conscience grandissante des effets à long terme du diagnostic et du traitement, il est essentiel de repérer et de résoudre les facteurs de risque modifiables reliés à la santé à long terme et aux comorbidités de la maladie. L'activité physique est une thérapie qui acquiert de la crédibilité pour améliorer la qualité de vie et réduire le fardeau de la maladie. Examiner les croyances, les attitudes et les pratiques de counseling d'un groupe d'oncologues pédiatriques installé en Alberta. On a pris contact avec tous les médecins installés en Alberta ayant une spécialité connue en oncologie pédiatrique et on leur a demandé de participer à une enquête postale ponctuelle. Tous les médecins répondants considéraient à la fois l'exercice personnel et l'activité physique comme moyennement à extrêmement importants pour les survivants d'un cancer pendant l'enfance. Qui plus est, la moitié des répondants étaient d'avis que ce groupe de survivants ne court aucun risque associé à l'activité physique. Bien que la plupart des médecins déclarent prescrire l'activité physique, ils sont rares à penser que leurs patients respectent ces recommandations. Les oncologues répondants conviennent de l'importance de l'activité physique pour tous les survivants, mais il faudra mener d'autres recherches pour établir comment promouvoir le mieux une vie saine et active au sein de ce groupe.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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".