The Lived Experience of Street-involved and Homeless Youth who have Eating Struggles while Living in Situations of Food Insecurity
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Eating struggles continue to be predominantly conceptualized as a white, middle-to-upper class, cis-gender, female youth disorder, evident by physical emaciation. This is despite the rise of literature evidencing the existence of eating struggles among individuals of diverse backgrounds including those living in situations of poverty, food insecurity and homelessness. Street-involved and homeless youth (SIHY) often endure extreme forms of food insecurity that significantly impact their relationship with food and their body. Yet, SIHY are significantly underrepresented within the existing eating disorder and food insecurity literature. This thesis aimed to address this gap by exploring the lived experiences of SIHY who have eating struggles while living in situations of food insecurity; and to explore how SIHY perceive social services in relation to their eating struggles. A Heideggerian hermeneutic phenomenological approach was used to investigate how SIHY with eating struggles interpret and negotiate with their experiences of food insecurity and other oppressive living conditions. This study was conducted at a local SIHY resource centre in Ontario and included 11 participants. The participants were asked to partake in three interview sessions and one body map arts-based activity. The findings of this thesis (1) dismantles misconceptions surrounding SIHY who have eating struggles; (2) expands our understanding of trauma, revealing the multifaceted and interlocking forms of systemic (e.g., food insecurity) and relational traumas (e.g., intimate partner violence) that underlie SIHY’s eating struggles; (3) reveals the deeper purpose of eating struggles as an embodied negotiation and response; and (4) builds knowledge from SIHY’s recommendations for social service provision including conceptualizing healing as not only an inner process but one of which requires change and healing of our world.
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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) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.017 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| 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".