Ghaljaei Fereshteh, Rezaee Nasrin, Salar Alireza
Ph.D., Community Nursing Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran.
Electron Physician. 2017 Nov 25;9(11):5800-5805. doi: 10.19082/5800. eCollection 2017 Nov.
Women in their middle-age enjoy abilities that affect their health promotion and improvement. Throughout their entire lifetime, women strive to maintain and improve their health through benefiting from behaviors that come from experience.
This study was carried out with the aim of identifying self-care behaviors that middle-aged women consider as far as maintaining and promoting their health are concerned.
The study was conducted using a qualitative approach in conventional content analysis. Participants comprised of 20 middle-aged women from Zahedan, Iran in 2016 that were invited to enter the study using purposive sampling, and were given semi-structured interviews. After data collection, all interviews were transcribed, reviewed and then the subcategories were extracted.
The findings of this study include a main category "preventive self-care behaviors" and three subcategories of "understanding health and disease", "health knowledge" and "awareness of the health threats".
The findings suggest that preventive self-care behaviors of women are associated with features such as understanding health and disease, health knowledge and awareness of the associated health risks. As a matter of fact, preventive behaviors encompass strategies that women apply to improve their physical and mental health.
中年女性拥有影响其健康促进和改善的能力。在其一生中，女性通过从经验中获得的行为来努力维持和改善自身健康。
本研究旨在确定中年女性在维持和促进健康方面所考虑的自我护理行为。
本研究采用传统内容分析法的定性研究方法。2016年，来自伊朗扎黑丹的20名中年女性参与了该研究，采用目的抽样法邀请她们参与研究，并进行了半结构化访谈。数据收集后，对所有访谈进行转录、审查，然后提取子类别。
本研究结果包括一个主要类别“预防性自我护理行为”以及“理解健康与疾病”“健康知识”和“对健康威胁的认识”三个子类别。
研究结果表明，女性的预防性自我护理行为与理解健康与疾病、健康知识以及对相关健康风险的认识等特征相关。事实上，预防行为包含女性为改善身心健康所采用的策略。
