Adaptação e validação da escla ASKAS - Aging Sexual Knowledge and Attitudes Scale em idosos brasileiros
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
On this dissertation, we talk about the theme sexuality in the aging process. Due to the lack of bibliographic material in our culture and to the absence of a scale for evaluation of this theme in Brazil, our proposal was to do a cultural adaptation of a North-American scale (ASKAS -Aging sexual knowledge and attitudes scale), which evaluates people's knowledge and attitude regarding elderly sexuality. The cultural adaptation of a health measure needs to be validated through a specific methodology before it can be valid, and therefore utilized, in a country other than the one for which that was created. The scale translation is not enough; instead, it should be culturally adapted in order to keep its reability and validation in a different language and different population. In order to make the cultural adaptation of the scale mentioned above, we utilized the Recommendations for Cultural Adaptation of Health Condition Measures from the AAOS -Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons -and the Institute for Work & Health of Toronto, Canada. In this work, those directions will be described, as well as how they were applied for that cultural adaptation, knowing that that information will be able to help future researches in that area. The first part of the research was composed of 5 stages: two translations of the scale; synthesis of those translations; two back-translations; a meeting with the specialists committee for the analysis of the summary of the translations; and a pre-test, where we interviewed 43 people, among elderly, relatives of elderly and employees of nursing homes. The validity of the content was obtained through the analysis done by the specialists committee. Additionally, we conducted a quantitative analysis of the pre-test. In the second stage, we made a quantitative collection of data among 802 people. The reability of the scale was tested through Cronbach's Alpha and Composite Reability. The validity of the content was tested through confirmatory factorial analysis utilizing the modeling statistic method of structural equations via Partial Least Squares (PLS) under the version 2.0M3 of the Smart PLS software. Our results showed that the validated scale is reliable to be utilized in Brazil. On the adjustment of the model, we excluded a few questions that presented low factorial load in their construct. We expect that this research to contribute to future studies about sexuality in the aging process, broadening the knowledge produced in Brazil on that thematic.
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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) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.003 |
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 it