The more you know? Knowledge about genital herpes and factors affecting adjustment
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Genital herpes (herpes simplex virus) is a relatively common and recurrent sexually transmitted infection. Despite its high prevalence, knowledge about the condition can be lacking and many individuals suffer significant psychological distress upon diagnosis. As such, it is necessary to evaluate knowledge about herpes and examine factors that may contribute to adjustment. Participants ( N = 401) completed online measures of genital herpes knowledge, erotophobia–erotophilia, and psychological adjustment. In addition, participants were asked to rate their current herpes knowledge as well as their knowledge prior to diagnosis. Knowledge was high among those diagnosed ( M = 91.41, SD = 7.34); however, knowledge scores were not associated with any differences in psychological adjustment. Despite this, individuals who self-rated their current knowledge more favourably had greater psychological adjustment ( p = .001). Similarly, participants who rated themselves as being knowledgeable about herpes prior to diagnosis were significantly more adjusted ( p = .008). Erotophobia–erotophilia was found to moderate the relation between self-rated knowledge and psychological adjustment such that their positive relation was stronger for those high in erotophilia ( W ≤ 17.42). Greater efforts are needed to educate people about genital herpes prior to diagnosis. More positive psychological outcomes can be expected if people feel well informed about genital herpes. Positive sexual attitudes may play a critical role in educational efforts to improve adjustment to genital herpes and other sexually transmitted infections.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.009 |
| 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 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 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".