Operational Research on Transformative Education about Health and Sexual and Reproductive Rights During Adolescents’ Initiation Rituals
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Abstract
Introduction: Teachings during adolescent initiation rituals in Mozambique are one of the causes of adolescent pregnancy, high maternal and neonatal mortality rates, school dropout and premature marriage. Research in Nampula, “Alert Community for a Prepared Hospital”, identified rituals leaders and counsellors as relevant agents to achieve sexual and reproductive health education for adolescents. Lúrio University’s partnership with the University of Saskatchewan in Canada obtained funding for this operational research. Meetings were held with local partners and with the actors involved in the rites. The organisers of the ceremonies are the resource persons for a transformative education intervention on adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights. Objective: Assess education provided in adolescent’ initiation rituals about sexual and reproductive health and rights. Methods: Descriptive qualitative study, using interviews, carried out in Lúrio University Campus in October 2022. The recommendations of the Declaration of Helsinki were respected, and the study had the approval of the Bioethics Committees for Health at Lúrio University and the University of Saskatchewan. Results: 17 organisers were interviewed, 15 men and 2 women, with an average age of 54 years, mostly with primary schooling and peasants, living in various neighbourhoods of Nampula. The interviewees show significant differences, but also some homogeneity in the teaching given, although limitations are found on sexual and reproductive health, with the subject of contraceptives being scarcely broached. The teaching on interpersonal respect is mentioned, however, this orientation shows gender inequity. Conclusion: Rituals organisers are a traditional class of broad social impact but reveal little knowledge about sexual and reproductive health and rights. Informing this group and educating the rituals counsellors will be necessary to achieve adolescents’ behaviour changes.
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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 | 0.024 | 0.025 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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".