A Qualitative Study of Fitness Coaches’ Experiences in Community Based Exercise with People Living with HIV
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Fitness coaches need to understand the needs of people living with HIV engaged in community-based exercise (CBE) to be competent in developing exercises programs with this population. Our aim was to understand coaches' experiences engaging in a CBE intervention with PLWH in an urban center in Canada. As part of a broader study, coaches supervised weekly hour-long individualized exercise sessions with PLWH over a six-month period. Using qualitative longitudinal methods, we interviewed coaches up to three times over six months. Transcribed interviews were analyzed cross-sectionally and longitudinally. Seven coaches participated in 15 interviews. Developing confidence, improving health and experiencing a sense of community were viewed as key benefits to PLWH by the coaches. Challenges included accommodating the episodic nature of HIV and ensuring they felt prepared to work with PLWH. Understanding the experiences of coaches engaged in CBE can assist in tailoring exercise programs to meet the needs of PLWH.
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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 | 0.007 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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".