Muslim Nursing Student Beliefs about Possession States: An Exploratory Survey of Beliefs and Causal Attributions
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study was undertaken to explore beliefs about Jinn, black magic and evil eye among Muslim nursing students at University of Calgary in Qatar (UCQ). The aim was to determine the extent and ways in which Muslim nursing students attribute physical and mental health problems to these perceived possession states. One hundred and twenty eight undergraduate nursing students who self-identified as adherents of the Islamic faith completed a survey concerning their beliefs in Jinn, black magic and evil eye. The sample included two streams of students: Bachelor of Nursing Regular Track (BNRT, N=44) and Post Diploma Bachelor of Nursing students (PDBN, N=75) who had already completed a nursing qualification and were in the process of completing the degree program. Results of the survey showed that 84.1 % of BNRT students and 73% of PDBNs believe that Jinn can possess or take over humans. The vast majority of students (BNRT 90.7%, PDBN 84%) believe in black magic while over 90% of BNRTs and PDBNs believe in the evil eye. This research adds to the limited literature available on beliefs regarding possession states among Muslim nursing students. It also provides information that can be used by faculty to better understand the prevailing beliefs and attitudes of nursing students.
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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
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| 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".