To ring or not to ring: An interpretive description of cancer patients and caregivers exiting treatment
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The "ringing of the bell" (RTB) ritual upon the completion of cancer treatment is a common tradition in many centres. There is a paucity of research investigating the impact of this experience on the cancer patient and their caregivers exiting treatment. The purpose of this study was to identify key concepts within the experiences of cancer patients and their caregivers related to the ritual of RTB. An interpretive description (ID) approach was used including open-ended interviews with two cancer patients and their two caregivers. All four participants perceived the experience of RTB as being a positive aspect in the transition out of active cancer treatment. Moreover, RTB created a sense of community and was an important milestone that was symbolic of returning back to "normal life" after cancer treatment. Future work should examine the effects of rituals such as ringing the bell among diverse patient populations and across the cancer transition continuum.
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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 | 0.013 | 0.024 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.018 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| 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".