Understanding youths' experiences in a holistic weight management program
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Increased rates of obesity among youth have led to a growth in clinically-based and commercially available weight loss programs for youth. While obesity has been associated with negative physical, emotional, and psychological consequences, programs have primarily aimed to improve youths' physical health. The purpose of this study was to gain understanding of youths' experiences in a commercially available weight management program focused on lifestyle management and overall healthy development. Participants included four purposefully sampled male and female youth aged 10-18, enrolled in a 16-week program. Participants engaged in a semi-structured interview exploring their experiences within the program. Results indicate youth experienced positive development in the areas of physical, psychological and social skills. Participants highlighted specific mechanisms by which the program facilitated their development including the integrative educational approach, highly supportive parents and peers, and the work ethic required by the program. Youth also reported some negative experiences due to parents' over-involvement, instructors' control, and failing to meet their personal weight loss goals. Findings highlight the potential of programs' holistic approach to facilitate youths' broader development, yet suggest autonomy and learning to frame goals appropriately are critical to youths' positive experiences. Practical implications and future research directions are discussed.Acknowledgments: York University Faculty of Health; LaMarsh Centre for Child and Youth Research
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| 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".