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Record W4409626008 · doi:10.1080/02673037.2025.2491592

Navigating the maze: understanding the information journeys of women in second-stage shelters

2025· article· en· W4409626008 on OpenAlex
Ebony Rempel, Lorie Donelle, Jodi Hall, C. Nadine Wathen

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueHousing Studies · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicHomelessness and Social Issues
Canadian institutionsFanshawe CollegeWestern University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsStage (stratigraphy)PsychologySociologyGender studies

Abstract

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In this study, we explored the complex information journeys of women residing in second-stage shelters in Alberta, Canada, using a grounded theory approach. Analysis of detailed interviews with 20 participants who have experienced intimate partner violence (IPV) uncovered the multifaceted challenges women faced as they navigated the interconnected systems of legal, financial, housing, and social support services. The theory generated was navigating the maze, which aptly reflected their experiences, highlighting the barriers and facilitators encountered along the way to obtaining information critical to their decision-making about their lives. Five key themes were identified: the Elusiveness of Entry, the Full-Time Job of managing support systems, the My home – their ‘house rules’: tensions between individual needs and shelter rules, Endless Corridors of decision-making, and the Shared Wisdom among residents. The researchers emphasized the need for greater clarity, support, and equity within the shelter system to better assist women in their journey towards independence and safety. These findings have significant implications for policy and practice, advocating for a more transparent and supportive approach to second-stage shelters.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.076
Threshold uncertainty score0.872

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.103
GPT teacher head0.456
Teacher spread0.352 · 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