Bibliographic record
Abstract
Research regarding women's body image experiences during menopause is limited; few studies reflect the experiences of South Asian Canadian women. This study qualitatively explored body image and menopause experiences in South Asian Canadian women. Nine first-generation South Asian immigrant Canadian women (aged 49-59 years), in perimenopause or postmenopause, took part in semi-structured interviews. Overall, two themes were constructed. The push and pull of South Asian and Western cultures focused on South Asian and Western cultural perspectives on upbringing, beauty standards, and menopause. Navigating through uncertainty towards acceptance addressed the intricacy of body image, menopause, and aging experiences and the struggle to accept change to their bodies. The results highlight the intersectionality of gender, race, ethnicity, culture, and menopause status in participants' understanding, perceptions, and behaviours toward body image and menopause experiences. The findings demonstrate a need for critical examinations of social constructs (i.e., Western ideal, Western views of menopause) that nfluence participants' experiences, and indicate a need for the development of culturally-appropriate and community-based interventions and resources. Given the underlying narrative of influence and conflict between Western and South Asian cultures, examining acculturation may uncover potential protective strategies for subsequent generations of South Asian women.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 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) | 0.018 | 0.002 |
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".