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Record W4414697395 · doi:10.3138/ijmsch.2024.0009

Help seeking and access to health and social services among Anishnaabe men

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Hélène Pourcelot, Hugo Asselin, Óscar Labra

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Men s Social and Community Health · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicMigration, Health and Trauma
Canadian institutionsUniversité du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHelp-seekingFocus groupService (business)Health servicesVisibilityIndigenousSocial WelfareService provider

Abstract

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Introduction: Although the issue of access to health and social services in Indigenous communities appears more pressing for men than for women, studies have tended to focus on women's perspectives. Moreover, most studies focus on the barriers preventing access to services rather than on facilitators of help seeking. The objective of this study was to identify factors facilitating help seeking within three Anishnaabe communities in Québec, Canada. Methods: Interviews were conducted with 15 Anishnaabe adult men having recently (<5 years) used at least one health or social service. Results: The interviews allowed to identify triggers of Anishnaabe men's help-seeking behaviour (e.g. crisis situation, awakening), motivators of help seeking (e.g. pursuit of well-being for oneself and family), their apprehensions about help seeking (e.g. mistrust towards service providers), as well as facilitators of help seeking (e.g., knowledge of services, ability to express emotions). Conclusions: To foster Anishnaabe men's help seeking, efforts should be made to reach out to them rather than waiting for them to reach out to services. Giving visibility to their engagement and personal development is likely to encourage other men to follow their example. Considering Anishnaabe men's strong sense of self-reliance, procedures of access to services should be simplified, and information sharing about services should be improved.

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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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
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: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.916
Threshold uncertainty score0.169

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0050.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.000

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 head0.055
GPT teacher head0.438
Teacher spread0.383 · 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

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