Transcending options: creating a milieu for practicing high level wellness

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Title Transcending options: creating a milieu for practicing high level wellness
Publication Type dissertation
School or College College of Nursing
Department Nursing
Author Duffy, Mary Elizabeth
Contributor Wilson, Holly Skodol, R.N.
Date 1983-06
Description The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between living in a female-headed, one-parent family and the family's practice of prevention behaviors. The family is a client of nursing. However, a dearth of knowledge exists on the practice of prevention behaviors in families. Since a scarcity of knowledge exists on this phenomenon, a factor-searching study was conducted. The tenets of ground theory, particularly constant comparative analysis and theoretical sampling, were followed to collect and analyze the data. Participants in the study included female-headed, one-parent families as well as data sources which provided a societal perspective on the phenomenon. The completed study included 59 female-headed, one-parent families, 21 professionals, one therapy group, and a review of the literature as well as other types of media. Nonstructured interviews were conducted with the families and professionals. Each family also completed a health diary and a card sort. Nonparticipant observation was used to collect data at the group meetings. The grounded theory that emerged is the theory of transcending options in which the family, through the woman, is able to exceed the societal norms for a female-headed, one-parent family. This theory is on a continuum and is cumulative. The beginning point of the theory is choosing options and the intermediate point is seeking options. The societal factors influencing the family members' interpretation of their situation are integrated into this theory. The family members' prevention behaviors are a subset of their life circumstances which are described by this theory. The implications for nursing are twofold. First, the theory can be applied to individual families in order to facilitate their growth. Second, this theory has implications for social action that will benefit female-headed, one-parent families.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Parent-Child Relations; Women
Subject MESH Health Promotion; Family
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name MS
Language eng
Relation is Version of Digital reproduction of "Transcending options: creating a milieu for practicing high level wellness." Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library. Print version of "Transcending options: creating a milieu for practicing high level wellness." available at J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collection. RA 4.5 1983 D83.
Rights Management © Mary Elizabeth Duffy
Format application/pdf
Format Medium application/pdf
Identifier undthes,212038
Source Original: University of Utah Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library (no longer available).
Funding/Fellowship Grant from Sigma Theta Tau.
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Setname ir_etd
ID 191322
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6m90bh2
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