The knowledge and attitudes of staff towardthe sexuality of older adults in Polish nursing homes
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Abstract
Introduction: With an increasing number of older adults, the subject of sexuality has become of interest to both researchers and healthcare professionals.The ability to express one's sexuality is a basic human right and need regardless of one's age, which demands measures to ensure that older adults have proper conditions and assistance to exercise it, including well-educated and professionally trained staff in nursing homes.The aim of this article was to investigate the relationship of knowledge and attitudes of nursing home staff and to assess the readiness and resources that characterise nursing homes in Poland.Material and methods: The data were obtained from a sample of 107 employees of nursing homes (89 women and 18 men) in urban areas of central and northern Poland.Participants' knowledge about older adults' sexuality and their attitudes towards this topic were measured using a Polish version of the Aging Sexual Knowledge and Attitudes Scale (ASKAS).Results: This study noticed a statistically significant relationship between participants' knowledge on sexuality of older adults and their attitude toward sexuality of seniors.Furthermore, 5 the most prevalent myths regarding sexuality of older adults were found: in old age sexual activity is harmful to one's health, the decline of sexual activity usually is not a symptom of depression among older adults, smoking is not linked to sexual activity, most women over 65 years old are unresponsive to sexual stimulation, the lack of a relationship with another person leads to a lack of sexual activity in late adulthood.Conclusions: Adequate knowledge regarding the sexuality of seniors is an important factor in developing positive attitudes toward the sexuality of the elderly, regardless of gender or age.Education is a key factor in helping older adults achieve an informed understanding about their sexuality in later life.
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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 |
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| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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.
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