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Ampaporn Puavilai, Alexa K. Stuifbergen,
doi: 10.1080/07399330050130278pmid: 11235280
Based on the data obtained from a larger exploratory descriptive study, life quality of 57 Thai women with diabetes was explored. Eighteen women from 57 original participants were interviewed regarding life characteristics that are important to their life quality. Thai women with diabetes perceived moderate satisfaction with their life at present. The age at onset of diabetes significantly correlated (r = . 30, p < . 05) with life satisfaction scores of women. Life characteristics that were important to their life quality included five categories: family, living conditions, success in life, health, and personal faith. The findings add to the knowledge base about life quality of women with diabetes in Thailand and to the understanding of the cultural specificity of human experiences and the quality of life concept in general.
Eva Elmberger, Christina Bolund, Kim Lützén,
doi: 10.1080/07399330050130287pmid: 11235281
The aim in this study was to gain a deeper understanding of the interaction between women who have been treated for breast cancer and their children. The focus was on how they deal with being a mother at the same time attending to their own needs. The main strategies of the grounded theory method were used to conceptualize the interactive process involved. Nine women, with children aged 4 to 23, living at home at the time of diagnosis, were interviewed. By the process of constant comparative analysis, the main theme that seemed to capture how the lives of these women had changed was transforming the exhausting-to-energizing process in being a good parent in the face of cancer. This theme is related to Meleis's concept of health?illness transition. The findings here indicate the need for family counseling, with special attention paid to the single parent with cancer.
doi: 10.1080/07399330050130296pmid: 11235282
This article presents an inquiry into a common lived experience, which the author named persisting while wanting to change to signify the struggle of trying to change health patterns. Parse's phenomenological-hermeneutic methodology was used to investigate the phenomenon, as it is lived by women in an abusive relationship. Through dialogical engagement with the researcher, eight women described their experiences of persisting while wanting to change. The generated structure and central finding contained three core concepts: wavering in abiding with the burdensome-cherished, engaging-distancing with ameliorating intentions, and anticipating the possibilites of the new. The core concepts are illustrated with excerpts from the dialogues and are discussed in relation to Parse's human becoming theory and related literature. Findings are consistent with those of other studies in which leaving an abusive relationship was described as a process. Implications for practice and further research also are discussed.
Carol C. Beausang, Anita G. Razor,
doi: 10.1080/07399330050130304pmid: 11235283
A qualitative approach was used to examine young women's experiences of menarche and menstruation that were included in personal stories of growing up sexually. The personal experiences were examined by cross-case analysis to learn more about the narrators' attitudes toward menarche and their menstrual-related education. This was a secondary analysis using data collected for a study of common themes in the stories gathered in a 1998 study by Beausang. The data came from 332 stories written by students taking a sexuality course in a Midwestern community college. Of 227 stories written by women, 85 stories included menstrual experiences. Eleven narrators described menarche as a positive experience. In 10 of these stories, the mother was the primary teacher. The two most frequently identified sources of information by narrators were mothers and schoolteachers, with most narrators having a primarily negative view of their menstrual education regardless of the source. Problems with menstrual-related education were described as perceptions of unwillingness by teachers to discuss menstruation, time limits for education, unclear instruction leading to misconceptions, and the presence of peers in group learning situations that lead to embarrassment.
doi: 10.1080/07399330050130313pmid: 11235284
The 40-day postpartum period is characterised in the Middle East and elsewhere by an observance of seclusion, congratulatory visiting, the reciprocal exchange of gifts and money, and a special diet. Based on primary data from in-depth interviews among the Negev Bedouin in Israel, health enhancing practices are reviewed. The data are a subset from a larger study carried out in this setting. Often postnatal checkups, family planning counselling, and immunization services may not be routinely available or used. It is argued that these health services could be provided at the end of the 40-day period for mother and child, as in a pilot study in Tunisia some years ago. Health service provision would thus build on the health enhancing practices of the 40-day period.
Phyllis Mansfield, Patricia Koch, Ann M. Voda,
doi: 10.1080/07399330050130322pmid: 11235285
This study focused on the sexual response changes of 280 mostly White, married, highly educated midlife women and on the attributions they made for these changes. In a U.S. sample of women participating in the Midlife Women's Health Survey (MWHS), women whose sexual response had changed in the past year (40%) reported more decrements than increases in sexual response. When asked how they accounted for these changes, women referred most often to the physical and emotional changes of menopause and to life circumstances, and less often to their relationships with their partners. The attributions showed a distinct pattern: Most of the decrements were explained by physical events related to menopause, whereas most of the increases were explained by life circumstances. These findings are discussed in terms of a need for studying women's sexuality from a biopsychosocial perspective.
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