Investigating relationships between ethnicity, preventative behaviours, and perceptions of heart disease and breast cancer
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Women believe breast cancer is more severe and is less controllable than heart disease despite the higher mortality rate for the latter in Canada for women. Perceptions of heart disease and breast cancer tend to vary depending by ethnicity. These disease perceptions are extremely relevant for lifestyle change and preventative action. This study examined Canadian women with South Asian (n = 170), East or South East Asian (n = 188), British (n = 373), and Western European (n = 169) ancestry (Mage = 37.22, SD = 13.55). Perceptions of ability to reduce risk for breast cancer/heart disease, and control over getting the diseases were measured along with lifestyle behaviours (smoking, fruit and vegetable consumption, leisure time physical activity). In the heart disease models, fruit and vegetable consumption was related to perceptions of ability to reduce risk of heart disease for all ethnicity groups except East or South East Asians. Age and physical activity were related to perceptions of control and ability to reduce risk in women of British ancestry. In the breast cancer models, fruit and vegetable consumption was related to perceptions of ability to reduce risk and control for all the ethnicity groups except for Western Europeans for which only physical activity was related to perceptions of ability to reduce risk of breast cancer. Despite the importance of physical activity in disease prevention, it appears to be less important in perceptions of ability to reduce risk and control over getting the diseases, especially for those of Asian descent.Acknowledgments: Canadian Institutes of Health Research
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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
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| 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 | 0.000 |
| 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)
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".