scholarly journals The Meaning of Work and Self-Management Experiences among Elderly Workers with Multiple Chronic Diseases: A Qualitative Study

Healthcare ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 471
Author(s):  
Juah Kim ◽  
Jiyeon Ha
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Work Environments ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Meaning Of Work ◽  
Elderly Workers ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Multiple Chronic Diseases

With population aging, increasingly many elderly individuals are expected to participate in economic activities. Elderly workers have a higher prevalence of multiple chronic diseases, making it necessary to examine elderly workers’ experiences of health-related self-management in work environments. This qualitative study investigated the meaning of work and health-related self-management experiences among elderly workers with multiple chronic diseases. The study participants were elderly workers residing in South Korea (65 years old or older) with at least two chronic diseases. Twelve participated in individual interviews, which were audio-recorded and transcribed. Qualitative content analysis was conducted with the transcribed data. Six themes, 21 sub-themes, and 40 codes were derived. The themes were “benefit of work on health and life”, “adaptation to a new work environment”, “endurance”, “continuous efforts to maintain health”, “difficulties in self-management”, and “requirements for health promotion”. The participants experienced difficulties in health-related self-management due to time constraints, poor work environment, and financial burdens. However, participants expressed their desire to invest effort into managing their physical and psychological health and to work as long as possible. Programs that consider the aging and health-related characteristics of elderly workers and their work environments should be developed and implemented.

scholarly journals Correlates of Physical Activity in Persons with Arthritis: Review and Recommendations

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 230-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Wilcox ◽  
Cheryl Der Ananian ◽  
Patricia A. Sharpe ◽  
Jennifer Robbins ◽  
Theresa Brady
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Reference Lists ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Inclusion Criteria ◽  
Barriers And Enablers ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Mental Well Being ◽  
Consistent Support

Background:Physical activity (PA) is important for arthritis self-management. A better understanding of the PA correlates in persons with arthritis will help inform interventions.Methods:Computer searches were conducted on PubMed, PsychInfo, Current Contents, and Cinahl databases. Reference lists of extracted articles were also searched. Thirty-six studies published between 1976 and February 2004 met inclusion criteria.Results:PA correlates are presented for sociodemographic, psychological, health-related, social, and environmental categories. Self-efficacy, perceived benefits and barriers, mental well-being, prior PA, and pain received the most consistent support as PA correlates, whereas sociodemographic, social, and environmental variables were the least studied. Too few studies were conducted to allow comparisons across arthritis type or study design.Conclusions:We recommend that additional qualitative research be conducted to understand factors influencing PA in persons with arthritis. Prospective studies, particularly in the context of a PA program or intervention, would also be useful to better understand how barriers and enablers change over time.

Self-Management Support Needs of Patients with Chronic Diseases in a South African Township: A Qualitative Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loveness Dube ◽  
Kirstie Rendall-Mkosi ◽  
Stephan Van den Broucke ◽  
Anne-Marie Bergh ◽  
Nokuthula G. Mafutha
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
South African ◽  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Support Needs ◽  
Management Support ◽  
South African Township

scholarly journals Health-related needs of people with multiple chronic diseases: differences and underlying factors

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 651-660 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petra Hopman ◽  
François G. Schellevis ◽  
Mieke Rijken
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Multiple Chronic Diseases

scholarly journals HOW MULTIPLE CHRONIC DISEASE BURDEN INFLUENCES COMMUNITY-BASED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S259-S260
Author(s):  
Keith W Turner ◽  
Cheng Yin
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Health ◽  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Disease Burden ◽  
Health Program ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Disease Symptoms ◽  
Behavioral Health Program ◽  
Multiple Chronic Diseases

Abstract Background: Studies have shown that participation in community-based self-management education programs can result in improved healthful behaviors (exercise, cognitive symptom management, coping, and communications with physicians), improved health status (self-reported health, fatigue, disability, social/role activities, and health distress), and decreased days in the hospital. Problem: One of the understudied factors thought to influence efficacy in community based self-management programs is the presence and impacts of multiple chronic conditions on participants within community based behavioral health program populations. Multiple chronic diseases when scaled collectively can be considered as a participant’s individual disease burden to be included in other analyses. Methodology: This investigation explores possible ways disease burden associates with such important constructs as participant personal characteristics and participant confidence in controlling impacts of their disease symptoms and participant preferences for use of various methods of coping with disease impacts. Outcomes: Results indicate a complex pattern of relationships between such factors as personal characteristics of program participants and their perceived mastery over the impacts of their disease symptoms, and their preferred mechanisms for coping. Implications: program designers and managers can better understand the differential influences of disease burden on participants analyzed with their personal characteristics and their preferential uses for coping mechanisms and their perceived ability to withstand the added burdens of multiple chronic diseases.

scholarly journals Assessment of an Interactive Digital Health–Based Self-management Program to Reduce Hospitalizations Among Patients With Multiple Chronic Diseases

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (12) ◽  
pp. e2140591
Author(s):  
Scott A. Lear ◽  
Monica Norena ◽  
Davina Banner ◽  
David G. T. Whitehurst ◽  
Sabrina Gill ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Multiple Chronic Diseases

Nurses’ experiences of violation of their dignity

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 328-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mojgan Khademi ◽  
Eesa Mohammadi ◽  
Zohreh Vanaki
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Moral Obligation ◽  
Work Environments ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Nurse Care ◽  
Nurses Knowledge

Dignity is a human right and a base for human health. This right must be observed in work environments as a moral obligation. This qualitative study aimed to understand nurses’ experiences of violation of their dignity at work and to explore its dimensions. The participants were 15 nurses working in two hospitals in Tehran. The data were collected through 26 unstructured interviews and analyzed using content analysis. The dimensions of violation were ‘irreverence’, including experiences of abuse and violence, humiliation, and being ignored; ‘coercion and violation of autonomy’, consisting of the control of relationships, lack of privacy, rigidness, and imposition; ‘ignoring professional and scientific ability’, indicating impossibilities in applying nurses’ knowledge; and ‘denying the value of nurse/care’, being the theme that verified the dominance of treatment/cure and lack of recognition of care value. Health systems should take the promotion of the nurses’ dignity into account through providing a dignified work environment.

scholarly journals Exploring the Perceptions of the Ageing Experience in Singaporean Older Adults: a Qualitative Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 389-408
Author(s):  
F. Shiraz ◽  
Z. L. J. Hildon ◽  
H. J. M. Vrijhoef
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Physical Health ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Meaning In Life ◽  
Social Connectedness ◽  
Social Health ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Health Perceptions ◽  
Age Related

Abstract Understanding older adults perceptions of health and adaptation processes to ageing can allow for more culturally aligned services and better targeted care. The aim of this exploratory qualitative study was to examine older adults perceptions of physical, psychological and social health and further understand the processes of adaptation and self-management of these health perceptions. Semi-structured in depth interviews (IDI) were conducted with ethnically diverse older adults in Singapore, aged 60 and above. Participants were asked open ended questions about their physical health, psychological health and their current social health and relationships. They were also asked methods of adaptation to these age related changes. In total, forty participants were interviewed. A thematic analysis identified five main themes when exploring perceptions of physical, psychological and social health. These included; 1) Slowing down 2) Relationship harmony 3) Financial harmony 4) Social connectedness and 5) Eating together. Adaptation and self-management of these health perceptions included six additional themes; 1) Keep moving 2) Keep learning; where continued self-determination and resilience was a key method in adapting to negative thoughts about declining physical health 3) Adopting avoidant coping behaviours 4) ‘It feels good to do good’; where finding meaning in life was to help others 5) ‘Power of Prayer’; which highlighted how older adults relegated responsibilities to a higher spiritual power 6) Social participation; which included engaging in community and religious social activities that all contributed to self-management of older adults psychological health and social health. In conclusion, our study highlighted specific cultural nuances in older adults perceptions of health, particularly psychological and social health. These findings can help develop more targeted intervention programmes and better methods of measuring older adults health, which can assist with the global ageing phenomena.

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