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Describing an Explanatory Model of HIV Illness among Aboriginal Women

2000· article· en· W2316640303 on OpenAlexaffabout
Judy Mill

Bibliographic record

VenueHolistic Nursing Practice · 2000
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicHIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsExplanatory modelHuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV)EtiologyDiseaseMedicineSociology of health and illnessHealth carePsychologyFamily medicinePsychiatryPathology

Abstract

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This article describes the explanatory model of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) illness used by aboriginal women in northern Alberta. Using Kleinman's explanatory model framework, eight women who were HIV positive were interviewed to determine their perspectives on the etiology, pathophysiology, symptomology, course of illness, and methods of treatment for HIV. A comparative analysis was done between the explanatory model of HIV illness as described by participants and the conventional biomedical paradigm of HIV disease. As described by aboriginal women, several aspects of the explanatory model of HIV were congruent with the biomedical paradigm. It was also found that the findings related to etiology and treatment of HIV illness was incongruent with the conventional biomedical paradigm of HIV disease. These findings highlight the relevance of knowing models of illness for health care professionals, particularly nurses who work in communities with a high incidence of HIV/AIDS. These models make care planning of patients with HIV and AIDS more focused and directed.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.800
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.072
GPT teacher head0.401
Teacher spread0.329 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designOther design
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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Published2000
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