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Record W6980659931

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE MEAN NUTRIENT INTAKES OF VARIOUS POPULATION GROUPS OF THE ELDERLY IN SASKATOON

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Bibliographic record

VenueUniversity Library (University of Saskatchewan) · 2023
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicPalliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Saskatchewan
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMealPopulationRiboflavinFood groupDietary Reference IntakeVitaminNutrientElderly people
DOInot available

Abstract

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This survey was conducted in order to examine the dietary adequacy of three different support systems for single elderly people living alone in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. One hundred and twenty people over the age of 65 were selected from the Alliance of Youth and the Elderly, Meals on Wheels, and the Sherbrooke Community Center. The Alliance of Youth and the Elderly helps to repair and maintain the homes of the elderly, but does not provide meal service. Meals on Wheels provides one hot meal each weekday while the Sherbrooke Community Center provides all meals and snacks. Food consumption of subjects was recorded using the 24-hour dietary recall method. Exact quantities of food consumed were determined with the aid of food models. Socio-economic and demographic data for each individual were entered on a questionnaire, and all data were coded for computer analysis. Computer analysis utilized food composition data from the Handbook of The Nutritional Contents of Foods, U.S.D.A. No. 8, and printed out the daily intake of calories, protein, fat, calcium, iron, vitamin A, vitamin C, thiamine, riboflavin, and niacin for each individual. The effects of socio-economic and demographic variables on the caloric and nutrient intakes of the elderly subjects were determined with the analysis of variance. Adequacy of diet for the three support systems of the elderly was assessed by comparison with the recommendations made in the 1976 edition of Dietary Standard for Canada. Results of this survey indicated that elderly males and females in the Alliance of Youth and the Elderly and Meals on Wheels met Canadian recommended levels for calories and all nutrients. Males in the Sherbrooke Community Center did not meet recommended levels of intake for thiamine while females in the Sherbrooke Community Center exceeded recommended levels of intake for calories. Protein intakes for all subjects were affected by differences in age and sex. Protein, calcium and vitamin A intakes of all subjects were affected by differences in the type of support program. Results of this survey suggest that elderly males and females living alone at home and receiving help from the community can adequately meet their nutritional needs.

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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: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.641
Threshold uncertainty score0.713

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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 head0.038
GPT teacher head0.274
Teacher spread0.237 · 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 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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Published2023
Admission routes2
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