Life Experiences of Women with Leprosy in South Korea
Bibliographic record
Abstract
AIM: The purpose of this study was to identify the life experiences of women diagnosed with leprosy in South Korea. METHODS: The study included seven purposively chosen participants from the Sorokdo Hospital (leprosy resident hospital). Data were collected through a series of in-depth individual interviews from January to July 2015. The data analysis method was based on Colaizzi’s approach. RESULTS: The study’s results showed that the experiences of women diagnosed with leprosy in South Korea consisted of 10 themes and 4 theme clusters: 1) A disease perceived as a state of damnation, 2) Irresistible karma, 3) Fading candles in the wind, and 4) A will to live. CONCLUSION: These findings demonstrate that health care professionals should pay attention to not only treating the physical and psychological symptoms of leprosy patients but also attempt to influence the community and public culture in order to reduce the social stigma around this disease. The results of this study can help us in a better understanding of the lived experiences of women diagnosed with leprosy.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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".