The meaning of quality of life and relationships for women living with interstitial cystitis
Bibliographic record
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To describe women's 'lived' experience of interstitial cystitis (IC); specifically, its meaning and the psychosocial impact on quality of life for women using the conceptual model of sexual health.DESIGN: Qualitative study using purposive sampling.The study consisted of semistructured interviews with women diagnosed with IC.Data were analyzed using manifest content analysis methodology.SETTING: Interviews were conducted either in the home or at the time of the woman's clinic visit.POPULATION STUDIED: Participants were required to have been treated with pentosan polysulfate, intravesical therapy of dimethyl sulfoxide or a combination of both.Women who had undergone bladder dilation only and those in remission were excluded. MAIN RESULTS:Findings supported the sexual health model with relationships emerging as the most predominant category impacting the lives of women with IC.CONCLUSIONS: Specific to communicating issues of sexual health, the findings of the present study further supported the existing gaps in clinical practice for care delivery.There is a need to educate health professionals about the impact of IC on sexual well being and to ensure that the staff working within an IC clinic are comfortable with including sexual health in the provision of care.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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".