Parents’ Experience Caring for Young Children with Minor Illness: An Ecological Perspective
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Typical family routines break down when a child is ill. For working par-ents, child care and employment con-ditions and demands inevitably play a role in the process of determining short-term child care arrangements. According to previous research, the decision to stay home and care for the ill child is complex (Polyzoi & Babb, 2004: Polyzoi, Elfenbaum, & Babb, 2006). The aim of this current study is to gain insight into the perspective of working parents as they balance child care, family and work during episodes of minor illness in children. Personal experiences of eight mothers were assessed through semi-structured interviews. The analysis focuses on the interrelationships between the contexts of daily family living, as guided by Ecological theory (Bronfenbrenner, 1979). The descrip-tions of experiences and events sur-rounding episodes of childhood ill-ness make reference to home, the child care setting and the workplace, reflecting the attitudes and values of the larger society. The statement of one mother, “You know they don’t want you to send your children, but yet they’re not helping you stay home.” reflects the overall sense of stress experienced by families as they deal with these occurrences.
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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 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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".