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Record W4409790211 · doi:10.1002/pon.70155

Harnessing Social Media to Develop Conceptual Domains of Quality of Life for Adolescents With Advanced Cancer

2025· article· en· W4409790211 on OpenAlexafffund
Andrea Johnson, Kimberley Widger

Bibliographic record

VenuePsycho-Oncology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicChildhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
Canadian institutionsInstitute for Clinical Evaluative SciencesSickKids FoundationHospital for Sick ChildrenUniversity of Toronto
FundersCanada Research Chairs
KeywordsQuality of life (healthcare)Social mediaQualitative researchPsychologyPromConceptual frameworkPopulationMedicineGrounded theoryCancerClinical psychologyPsychotherapistSociology

Abstract

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BACKGROUND: Many adolescents will not survive their cancer diagnosis and will live with advanced cancer (cancer i.e. difficult to cure). Due to the advancement of cancer therapies, many adolescents will live with advanced cancer for long periods of time. Enhancing QoL is a well-established goal of their clinical oncology and palliative care however, there has been little research to conceptualize QoL in ways meaningful to them. There has also been a lack of QoL research focused on the inclusion of their voices and experiences into QoL construct development. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to develop proposed conceptual domains of QoL relevant to adolescents with advanced cancer. METHODS: This study was a qualitative study grounded in Interpretive Description. We used social media content created by adolescents living with advanced cancer to inform the development of QoL domains. Adolescents are increasingly using social media to share their experiences and we believed social media would facilitate access to rich data. RESULTS: 235 social media posts recorded by 14 adolescents were included in the analysis. This analysis generated domains relevant to the QoL of adolescents with advanced cancer: (1) Perceived Health, (2) The Lived Body, (3) Emotional Wellbeing, (4) Normalcy, (5) Purpose and Direction and (6) Re-Orientation. CONCLUSIONS: The QoL of adolescents with advanced cancer is poorly understood. This research has generated unique conceptual domains of QoL relevant to this population of adolescents. These concepts will inform the future development of a patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) that can measure their QoL.

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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)0.011
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.023
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation 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 score0.011
Threshold uncertainty score0.056

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0110.023
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0030.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0030.004
Open science0.0000.003
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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 head0.066
GPT teacher head0.429
Teacher spread0.363 · 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 designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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