Exploring prenatal health promotion experiences of recent immigrant women
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Abstract
The purpose of this practicum was to explore the prenatal health promotional needs of immigrant women in Winnipeg.A qualitative study was conducted with frve immigrant women who had given birth to a child and lived in Winnipeg for less than five years.The study focused on the women's knowledge and use of prenatal services as well as their awareness of other resources that are available for immigrants in Downtown Winnipeg.Seven service providers were informally interviewed for the purpose of collecting an inventory of services for immigrants in Downtown Winnipeg.Service providers also acted as key informants due to their first hand knowledge about the provision of services to recent immigrants.A purposeful sampling method was used to recruit five women into the study.Content revealed the following themes; social isolation and the need for social support, lack of knowledge about prenatal service availability, values and beliefs about pregnancy, language and cultural barriers.Social isolation was identified as a major contributor to immigrant women's feeling of loneliness, helplessness and depression.Family and friends were mentioned as important in the life of immigrant women during pregnancy.Women specifically mentioned the significance of female relatives such as mothers, sisters and aunts.Participants in the study identified lack of knowledge of available resources as the main contributor to nonattendance at prenatal classes during their first pregnancy in Winnipeg.Language and cultural barriers were considered as other causes for communication problems with service providers.Participants in the study expressed the need for increased awareness of prenatal services as well as the need for language and culturally appropriate prenatal programs.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".