The Quality of Life, Self-Efficacy and Arthritis Symptoms in Elderly Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis in Rural and Urban Areas: 296 Cases Reported for Comparative Analysis
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Abstract
Objective This study was to learn the status of quality of life, self-efficacy and arthritis severity in elderly patients with knee osteoarthritis(KOA) in urban and rural areas. Methods A total of 296 KOA patients were surveyed with arthritis impact measurement scales-2 short form(AIMS2-SF), arthritis self-efficacy for 8 items(ASES-8) and Western Ontario and Mc Master Universities asteoarthritis index(WOMAC) for the status of their life quality, self-efficacy and arthritis symptoms. Results The average score of AIMS2-SF was 70.88. The urban patients achieved significantly higher score in the AIMS2-SF(mean 72.89)compared with that of the rural patients(mean 68.82, P0.05). The average score of WOMAC was 35.13, and there was no significant difference between urban and rural patients. The average score of self-efficacy was 4.60, with higher score in urban patients(mean 5.20) than that in the rural(mean 3.99, P0.05). The score of AIMS2-SF were positively correlated with self-efficacy and negatively with WOMAC. Conclusion The quality of life and the arthritis self-efficacy in elderly patients with KOA were in a medium level. Knee osteoarthritis was largely on a mild-to-moderate level of severity(84.2%). The life quality of KOA patients was closely related to self-efficacy and arthritis symptoms. It is suggested that the early interventions should be implemented to delay the progress of KOA and the interventions targeting arthritis self-efficacy may be helpful to improve the quality of life of KOA patients.
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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