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Record W4414727435 · doi:10.1177/10499091251384613

The Effects of Learning About Deathbed Visions (DBVs) on Students’ Knowledge About DBVs and Levels of Death Anxiety

2025· article· en· W4414727435 on OpenAlexaff
Stephen Claxton-Oldfield, Makayla Boudreau, Eliza Nobes

Bibliographic record

VenueAmerican Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine® · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicParanormal Experiences and Beliefs
Canadian institutionsMount Allison University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsVisionAnxietyDeath anxietyDeath educationScale (ratio)Training (meteorology)

Abstract

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The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of learning about deathbed visions (DBVs) on undergraduate students' knowledge about DBVs and their levels of death anxiety. Twenty-two students were randomly assigned to a training group (received a 20-minute lecture and slides on DBVs) and 28 students served as an equivalent control (no training) group. Both groups completed a fear of death scale and a DBV knowledge questionnaire on two occasions (approximately one week before and immediately after the training group received the training). Participants in the training group experienced a significant increase in knowledge about DBVs following training compared to the no training group which showed virtually no change in knowledge about DBVs from pre- to post-test. No effect of training on participants' levels of death anxiety was found. Suggestions for future research are offered.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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)0.001
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: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.188
Threshold uncertainty score0.408

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
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 head0.017
GPT teacher head0.389
Teacher spread0.372 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
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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