Department of Cooperative and Social Welfare, Faculty of Social Science, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran.
BMC Womens Health. 2021 Sep 13;21(1):331. doi: 10.1186/s12905-021-01469-0.
Research on factors affecting self-care is scarce. The social factors, in particular, have not been yet investigated in Iran. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the relationship between self-care and social capital among women.
The participants were 737 women who were living in the marginal, middle and upper areas in the city of Yazd, Iran. Data were collected using a researcher-made self-care questionnaire and Harper's (Off Natl Stat 11:2019, 2019) Social Capital Scale. The data were analyzed using structural equation modeling by SPSS and Amos v24.
The results showed that the social capital had significant positive effects on the general self-care behavior of the participants (β = 0.56, p < 0.001). It also had significant positive effects on the self-care behavior of women living in the marginal (β = 0.58), middle (β = 0.49) and upper (β = 0.62) parts of the city (p < 0.001). Besides, the women living in the marginal parts had relatively lower levels of self-care compared to those living in the middle and upper parts of the city. The examination of the fit indices indicated that the model has a good fit (CMIN/DF = 2.087, NFI = 0.921, RMSEA = 0.027, CFI = 0.956, TLI = 0.940, GFI = 0.956, IFI = 0.957).
The findings of this study demonstrated that social capital has significant positive effects on the general self-care behavior of women. Therefore, improving their self-care can be achieved through promoting their social capital.
关于影响自我护理的因素的研究很少。特别是，社会因素在伊朗尚未得到研究。因此，本研究旨在调查妇女自我护理与社会资本之间的关系。
参与者是 737 名居住在伊朗亚兹德市边缘、中部和上层地区的女性。使用研究者自制的自我护理问卷和哈珀（Off Natl Stat 11:2019, 2019）社会资本量表收集数据。使用 SPSS 和 Amos v24 的结构方程模型对数据进行分析。
结果表明，社会资本对参与者的一般自我护理行为有显著的正向影响（β=0.56，p<0.001）。它对生活在城市边缘（β=0.58）、中部（β=0.49）和上层（β=0.62）地区的妇女的自我护理行为也有显著的正向影响（p<0.001）。此外，生活在城市边缘地区的妇女的自我护理水平相对低于生活在城市中部和上层地区的妇女。拟合指数的检验表明，该模型具有良好的拟合度（CMIN/DF=2.087，NFI=0.921，RMSEA=0.027，CFI=0.956，TLI=0.940，GFI=0.956，IFI=0.957）。
本研究结果表明，社会资本对妇女的一般自我护理行为有显著的正向影响。因此，通过促进社会资本可以提高妇女的自我护理水平。
