Knowledge on diabetes mellitus among geriatrics people living in old home
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Abstract
Objective: Diabetes mellitus is a serious global public health concern. Inadequate public awareness of diabetic symptoms may explain the failure in early diagnosis, and as a consequence the burden and loss of economic output associated with diabetes. This cross-sectional study was conducted to see knowledge on diabetes mellitus among geriatrics people living in old home. Methods: A total of 90 elderly people from both gender aged between 55 to >75 years living in selected old homes who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria were selected purposively. Data were collected through face to face interview by using pretested structured questionnaire and scores of 0 and 1 were allocated to each of the questions judging knowledge. Three categories of knowledge levels were defined on the basis of the scores obtained by each participant; poor (<50% of the total score), moderate (50-70% of the total score) and good (>70% of the total score). Results: Majority of study subjects were aged around 60 to 70 years with 50 (55.6%) male and 40 (44.4%) female. Frequency of illiterate and primary educated persons was 34.4% in each category and religion-wise, overwhelming majority (95%) was Muslim. Number of family members was < 3 to 6 for vast majority of the respondents. Most of the participant (72.2%) did not have any concept of diabetes. Diabetic symptoms as increase in urination, thirst and hunger, decrease weight and delayed healing were known by 22.2%, 18.9%, 15.6%, 14.4% and 15.6% respondents respectively. Thirty percent respondents did not know about causes of diabetes and about one quarter was unaware about diabetic complications and its control measures. Like-wise, most of respondents (55.5%) did not know about symptoms of hypoglycemia. Overall 11.1%, 73.3% and 15.6% geriatric people living in old homes had good, moderate and poor knowledge about diabetes mellitus. Conclusion: Knowledge of diabetes among geriatric population living in old homes having different social and educational background was not satisfactory. The development of public health programs to increase knowledge of diabetes and its complications is required to assist people living in different sociocultural background in Bangladesh.
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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 | 0.028 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.018 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.042 | 0.001 |
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".