A Narrative Inquiry into the Experiences of sub-Saharan African Immigrants Living with HIV in Alberta, Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Current epidemiological data show an increasing number of men and women from sub-Saharan African countries who are living with HIV in Alberta. New cases of HIV between 1999 and 2008 among both men and women in the heterosexual (endemic) risk category have increased. In 2008, one Alberta HIV Clinic estimated that 20% of new HIV-positive clients had come from HIV-endemic countries; this had increased from 1% in 1998. There is little known about the experiences of African immigrants living with HIV in Alberta communities. The purpose of this narrative inquiry was to understand the experiences of sub-Saharan African immigrants living with HIV in Alberta. Clandinin and Connelly’s (2000) form of narrative inquiry was the qualitative methodology used for this study. Following the collection of field texts through in-depth conversations and field journal writing, narrative accounts were co-composed with research participants. Three participants’ narrative accounts are presented in the dissertation and center on stories of childhood, life before living in Canada, coming to Canada, living in Canada, receiving an HIV diagnosis and living with HIV. A unique researcher-participant relationship allowed for extended collaboration and the development of a close researcher-participant relationship, with relational ethics at the center. Narrative threads that resonated between participant accounts included: stories to live by (narrative forms of identity), including the search for narrative coherence and living in the midst of transition; found and chosen communities; and narrative interlappings. This dissertation concludes with a chapter discussing the personal, social and practical significance of this study: the phenomenon of narrative inquiry, the social landscapes that shape experience and stories to live by, and new possibilities that nurses may attend to.
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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 | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.051 | 0.017 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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".