Understanding how workshops transform participants' lives by exploring their perceived experiences: the Kahnawake Schools diabetes prevention project
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Abstract
Aim: To understand how the healthy lifestyle promoting workshops offered by the Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project (KSDPP) bring about transformative experiences that change how participants live their lives.Design: Qualitative study of semi-structured interviews.Setting: KSDPP is a community based participatory research project created in 1994 in an effort to prevent diabetes in Kahnawake, a Mohawk community.Since 2007 KSDPP has implemented cooking, healthy lifestyle and physical activity workshops for adults.Participants: Seventeen adult female Kahnawake community members with repeat participation in more than one KSDPP workshop, and one key knowledge holder, the Community Intervention Facilitator, who designed and implemented the workshops.Methods: Interview transcripts were analysed following grounded theory.Results: Deciding to attend a workshop required overcoming feeling selfish and accepting there is value in caring for oneself.Participants experienced transformative processes that gave them opportunities to learn cultural traditions, healthy lifestyle skills, stress coping skills and feel they were participating in community life.The outcomes of the processes were feelings of improved physical, intellectual, spiritual and emotional health.Other Kahnawake community members' health was impacted through the participants' role modeling and advocacy for healthy lifestyles. Conclusions:This study shows how culturally relevant health promotion interventions can bring about changes in the overall health of participants.Diabetes prevention interventions could be designed to encourage the development of the transformative processes found in this study.Promotional material could emphasize that the decision to join an intervention is a choice to do something positive for oneself that may lead to better individual and community health.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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 teacher head, 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".