Macdonnell Judith A, Dastjerdi Mahdieh, Bokore Nimo, Khanlou Nazilla
School of Nursing, York University, HNES Building, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON, Canada M3J 1P3.
Nurs Res Pract. 2012;2012:576586. doi: 10.1155/2012/576586. Epub 2012 Jun 18.
This paper reports on grounded theory findings that are relevant to promoting the mental health and well-being of immigrant women in Canada. The findings illustrate how relationships among settlement factors and dynamics of empowerment had implications for "becoming resilient" as immigrant women and how various health promotion approaches enhanced their well-being. Dimensions of empowerment were embedded in the content and process of the feminist health promotion approach used in this study. Four focus groups were completed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with 35 racialized immigrant women who represented diverse countries of origin: 25 were from Africa; others were equally represented from South Asia (5), Asia (5), and Central or South America and the Caribbean (5). Participants represented diverse languages, family dynamics, and educational backgrounds. One focus group was conducted in Somali; three were conducted in English. Constructivist grounded theory, theoretical sampling, and a critical feminist approach were chosen to be congruent with health promotion research that fostered women's empowerment. Findings foreground women's agency in the study process, the ways that immigrant women name and frame issues relevant to their lives, and the interplay among individual, family, community, and structural dynamics shaping their well-being. Implications for mental health promotion are discussed.
本文报告了扎根理论的研究结果，这些结果与促进加拿大移民妇女的心理健康和福祉相关。研究结果阐明了定居因素与赋权动态之间的关系如何影响移民妇女“变得有复原力”，以及各种健康促进方法如何提升她们的福祉。赋权的维度体现在本研究中所采用的女权主义健康促进方法的内容和过程中。在加拿大安大略省多伦多市完成了四个焦点小组，共有35名具有不同种族背景的移民妇女参与，她们来自不同的原籍国：25人来自非洲；另外南亚（5人）、亚洲（5人）以及中美洲、南美洲和加勒比地区（5人）的人数均等。参与者代表了不同的语言、家庭动态和教育背景。一个焦点小组用索马里语进行，三个用英语进行。选择建构主义扎根理论、理论抽样和批判性女权主义方法，以便与促进妇女赋权的健康促进研究保持一致。研究结果突出了妇女在研究过程中的能动性、移民妇女命名和阐述与其生活相关问题的方式，以及塑造其福祉的个人、家庭、社区和结构动态之间的相互作用。文中讨论了对心理健康促进的启示。
