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Record W4408341512 · doi:10.11124/jbies-24-00118

Experiences of HIV/AIDS caregiving by informal caregivers and the experiences of receiving care in sub-Saharan Africa: a qualitative systematic review protocol

2025· article· en· W4408341512 on OpenAlexaff
Benjamin Spears Ngmekpele Cheabu, Christina Godfrey, Madison Robertson, Amanda Ross‐White, Rylan Egan

Bibliographic record

VenueJBI Evidence Synthesis · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicHIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
Canadian institutionsQueen's University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCINAHLPsycINFOCritical appraisalMEDLINEMedicineData extractionQualitative researchHuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV)Health careGerontologyInclusion (mineral)Grey literatureFamily medicineNursingPsychologyAlternative medicinePsychological interventionSocial psychology

Abstract

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OBJECTIVES: The objective of this review is to identify, appraise, and synthesize available evidence on the experiences of informal caregivers providing HIV/AIDS care, as well as the experiences of care received by people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV) in sub-Saharan Africa. INTRODUCTION: PLHIV share the burden of the disease with their informal caregivers throughout their lives. Experiences of HIV/AIDS-related caregiving and care-receiving have a significant impact on the treatment and physiological health outcomes of both caregivers and care recipients. However, there is limited evidence regarding how caregiving approaches and caregiving experiences influence HIV/AIDS care. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: This review will consider qualitative studies on informal caregivers providing HIV/AIDS-related care as well as the experiences of PLHIV receiving care in sub-Saharan Africa. Eligible studies will focus on both the positive and negative experiences of informal caregivers and PLHIV throughout the HIV/AIDS caregiving continuum. METHODS: This review will follow the JBI methodology for systematic reviews of qualitative evidence. A comprehensive search strategy will be developed to retrieve relevant articles from MEDLINE (Ovid), Embase (Ovid), PsycINFO (Ovid), and CINAHL (EBSCOhost). The review will be conducted by 2 reviewers who will independently perform study selection, critical appraisal, data extraction, data synthesis, and assessment of confidence in the findings. REVIEW REGISTRATION: PROSPERO CRD42023470996.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.086
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.058
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Systematic review · Consensus signal: Systematic review
GenreCandidate signal: Protocol · Consensus signal: Protocol
Teacher disagreement score0.086
Threshold uncertainty score0.452

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0860.058
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0030.004
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0080.008
Bibliometrics0.0150.011
Science and technology studies0.0050.005
Scholarly communication0.0050.007
Open science0.0050.006
Research integrity0.0050.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0430.004

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.

Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.369
Teacher spread0.351 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSystematic review
Domainnot available
GenreProtocol

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".

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