Clustering of healthy behaviours in Canadians - Protocol for a multiple behaviour analysis of data from the CLSA
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Health behaviours such as physical inactivity, unhealthy eating, smoking tobacco, and alcohol use are leading risk factors for non-communicable chronic disease and play a central role in limiting health and life satisfaction. To date, however, health behaviours tend to be considered separately from one another, resulting in guidelines and interventions for healthy aging siloed by specific behaviours and often focused only on a given health behaviour without considering the co-occurrence of family, social, work and other behaviours of everyday life. Understanding how behaviours cluster, and how such clusters are associated with physical and mental health, life satisfaction, and health care utilization may provide opportunities to leverage this co-occurrence to develop and evaluate interventions to promote multiple health behaviour change. Using cross-sectional baseline data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study of Aging, we will perform a pre-defined set of exploratory and hypothesis-generating analyses to examine the co-occurrence of health and everyday life behaviours. We will use agglomerative hierarchical cluster analysis to cluster individuals based on their behavioural tendencies. Multinomial logistic regression will then be employed to model the relationships between clusters and demographic indicators, healthcare utilization, and general health and life satisfaction, and assess whether sex and age moderate these relationships. Additionally, we will conduct network community detection analysis using the clique percolation algorithm to detect overlapping communities of behaviours based on the strength of relationships between variables. This study will help to inform the development of interventions tailored to sub-populations of adults (e.g., physically inactive smokers) defined by the multiple behaviours that describe their everyday life experience.
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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 | 0.028 | 0.058 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.008 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.075 | 0.008 |
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".