The experience of older adults living with multimorbidity during the COVID-19 pandemic: A phenomenological study
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Purposes: We explored the experience of older adults living with multimorbidity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Using a phenomenological approach, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 17 participants aged 50 years and older living with multimorbidity. Data collection and analysis were iterative using a thematic approach. We explored participants’ overall pandemic experience as well as querying specifically about pandemic experiences of social isolation, coping and resilience. Results: We describe our findings according to four main themes: (1) Lives disrupted; (2) Diverse social isolation experiences; (3) Coping through seeking solitary and group activities; and (4) Individual ways of enacting resilience and the role of health care to build resilience. Conclusion: We found the experiences of older adults living with multimorbidity during the COVID-19 pandemic were characterized by disruption. When queried social isolation was shared as a prominent concern. We identified the creativity with which participants coped with social isolation and the resilience they marshaled. This study will be used to inform interventions to mitigate social isolation and its effects in a post-pandemic world.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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".