Using Omaha System Documentation to Understand Physical Activity among Rural Women

Abstract

PHNs should assess rural women who are not physically active for potentially serious physiological, psychosocial, and environmental problems. Departmental policies requiring assessment of Omaha System data across programs enabled population health measurement and research.

An investigation of physical activity among adults in Turkey using the Omaha System

“…Future studies should examine correlations between health‐related behavior problems and the feasibility of implementing interventions that simultaneously target multiple behaviors. Finally, education is a common component of physical activity interventions, and prior studies have reported a positive association between physical activity knowledge and behavior (Fredriksson et al, ; Hui, Hui, & Xie, ; Olsen, Thorson, et al, ). Yet, in this study, Physical activity knowledge was essentially the same among those who were completely inactive and those who were marginally active.…”

“…The ecological model for health promotion (McLeroy et al, ) was used to guide this study. The model recognizes the influence of the social–ecological environment on health behaviors and was operationalized with the Omaha System using a process described in prior studies (Olsen, Horning, et al, ; Olsen et al, ; Olsen, Thorson, et al, ). In summary, the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and community levels of the model were aligned with the Physiological, Psychosocial, and Environmental domains and problems of the Omaha System Problem Classification Scheme, respectively.…”

“…The ecological model for health promotion (McLeroy et al, 1988) was used to guide this study. The model recognizes the influence of the social-ecological environment on health behaviors and was operationalized with the Omaha System using a process described in prior studies (Olsen, Horning, et al, 2017;Olsen et al, 2018;Olsen, Thorson, et al, 2017) (1), severe sign/symptoms (2), moderate sign/symptoms (3), minimal sign/symptoms (4), and no sign/symptoms (5) (Martin, 2005).…”

“…The Omaha System as a standardized terminology can be used to guide and document nursing care. Several studies have demonstrated the suitability of the Omaha System in primary care settings for documenting nursing activities (Altiner, Secginli, Mathiason, & Monsen, 2019;Baisch, 2012;Erdogan et al, 2013;Monsen & Newsom, 2011;Olsen, Thorson, Baisch, & Monsen, 2017). Although use of the Omaha System is currently not required in FHCs, it has been translated and tested in Turkish (Erdogan & Esin, 2006) and has been used in research in family health, school health, and home health settings (Aktas, Yilmaz, Kaplan, & Cankiri, 2016;Altiner et al, 2019;Erdogan et al, 2013;Kerr et al, 2015Kerr et al, , 2019.…”

Empirical evaluation of the changes in public health nursing interventions after the implementation of an evidence-based family home visiting guideline

“…At the forefront of evidence-based family home visiting practice, public health nurses (PHNs) in local and state public health agencies routinely provide home visits to high risk families [9,10,[13][14][15][16][17][18][19]. While many evidencebased home visiting programs target low-income, high risk first-time single parents, the PHN workforce especially in governmental agencies must respond to identified local needs.…”