The role of quality elements of participation in promoting physical activity and the transition to civilian life among veterans with a physical disability
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Physical activity (PA) programs for veterans with a physical disability are developed to promote and facilitate important outcomes, including PA participation and the transition to civilian life. Minimal research has evaluated these outcomes, particularly in regards to the role of experiential elements of quality participation in facilitating these outcomes. The current study aims to evaluate the participation of veterans with a physical disability in PA events. We hypothesized that: (1) PA and its indicators would increase following participation in a PA event; (2) quality elements would mediate the relationship between quality precursors and participation outcomes. Forty-nine (n=32 men, n=16 women, n=1 unspecified) veterans with a physical disability (Mage=43.61±8.81) completed questionnaires prior to and following participation in the event, as well as at a three-month follow-up. Questionnaires assessed precursors, elements, and outcomes of quality participation. Results demonstrated no increase in PA indicators over time. However, a quality indicator of belongingness, linkages to the community, mediated the relationship of coach interpersonal skills on PA indicators of planning and intentions following event participation. Linkages to the community also mediated the relationship between coach interpersonal skills and family integration following event participation, and at the three-month follow-up. These findings provide the first evidence linking quality precursors and elements to indicators of PA and the transition to civilian life, which is important for future program development. This study also contributes to knowledge regarding the role of quality elements in supporting desired program outcomes for veterans post-injury.Acknowledgments: Canadian Institute of Military and Veteran Health Research; SSHRC; Wounded Warriors Canada
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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 | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 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".