Wellness Self‐care by Healthy Older Adults

Clark, Carolyn

doi:10.1111/j.1547-5069.1998.tb01332.x

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“…[25] Stumberger et al . [26] and Clark[27] also found a similar relationship between health promoting behaviors and life quality. There was a significant relationship between perceived health by the health promoting lifestyle and the four aspects of “self-care mental health”, “physical activity”, “rest” and “commitment to the group” in Tashiro's study on Japanese college girls.…”

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Health-promoting lifestyle and quality of life among undergraduate students at school of health, Isfahan university of medical sciences

Tol

Tavassoli

Shariferad

et al. 2013

J Edu Health Promot

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Background:Health promoting lifestyle (HPL) focuses on life promotion through lifestyle which consists of six aspects of “physical activity”, “nutrition”, “health responsibility”, “spiritual growth”, “interpersonal relations” and “stress management”. This lifestyle promotes health and welfare and induces satisfaction, self-persuasion and self-improvement. Considering the importance of the way a new behavior affects “life quality” as a motivational factor for starting and continuing that behavior, this study aimed to determine the relationship between health-promoting lifestyle and its aspects.Materials and Methods:This cross-sectional study was performed on undergraduate students at School of Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, using a census method. Health promoting lifestyle was measured by Health Promotion Lifestyle Profile two and life quality was assessed by the Persian version of QLQ-C30 questionnaire. Data analysis was conducted using descriptive and inferential statistical tests in SPSS.Results:Mean age of the participants was 21.12 years old. From among six aspects of health promoting behaviors, spiritual growth and responsibility with the means of 22.01 ± 2.224 and 20 ± 2.31 had the highest and physical activity with the mean of 17.58 ± 2.9 had the lowest scores, respectively. General life quality of 40.7% students was good and only 19.8% of them had an average global life quality. The highest and lowest frequencies of health-related life quality belonged to very good (58.6%) and excellent (9%) health, respectively. Except for stress management (P = 0.05) and gender of the students, there were no significant relationships between other HPL aspects and gender. There was no statistically significant relationship between global life quality of students and nutrition, physical activity, self-health responsibility and stress management while there was a significant relationship between global life quality and spiritual growth of the students. Health-related life quality and stress management were significantly related to each other; however, no statistically significant relationship was observed between health-related life quality and nutrition, physical activity, interpersonal relations and spiritual growth.Conclusion:There is a significant relationship between adopting health promoting lifestyle and aspects of spiritual growth and stress management on the one hand and general quality of life on the other, at least among students.

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Health-promoting lifestyle and quality of life among undergraduate students at school of health, Isfahan university of medical sciences

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Tavassoli

Shariferad

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J Edu Health Promot

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“…They are directed towards oneself or the environment and their purpose is to regulate one's functioning in the interest of one's life. The fundamental self‐care capabilities observed in the present study involved a sense of self‐responsibility, equilibrium and a capability to balance different, fundamental needs (41–44). The capabilities are broadly conceived, but in the context of the present study, they were most frequently associated with elders’ general health condition and their physical ability to perform daily activities (Table 1).…”

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Self‐care as a health resource of elders: an integrative review of the concept

Høy¹,

Wagner

Hall³

2007

Scandinavian Caring Sciences

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This review offers insight into self-care as a significant health resource of elders with different health status. It suggests that an elder's self-care ability is determined by the interaction of various sub-resources and conditions and emphasizes the constantly evolving nature of self-care. The framework may be of use in clinical practice, policy-making and research into health care of frail or robust elders.

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“…This notion of wellness as a future state has been influential in the development of theories which conceptualize wellness as an ideal or optimal state of health. In nursing these include Blattner's (1981) Holistic Nursing Model and Clark's (1998) Self Care Model, both of which represent health as a process of achieving high level or optimum health. Parse (1998) has proposed a Human Becoming Theory for nursing which conceptualizes health as both a future and an actual state.…”

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Towards an ontological theory of wellness: a discussion of conceptual foundations and implications for nursing

Mackey

2009

Nursing Philosophy

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In this article a discussion of the phenomenon of wellness and its relevance to contemporary nursing practice is developed. Drawing on phenomenology, the research literature and the author's own wellness research, an exposition of the concept of wellness is presented. It is proposed that the experience of being well is lived as a continuity of time and that it involves both a taking-for-granted of the body and containment of the horizon of concern. The state of actually being well is also clarified and contrasted with the more common understanding of wellness as an optimal or future state. This discussion has significance for nursing knowledge development, in terms of our understanding of the experience of wellness and illness. It also has implications for how nurses approach their practice, particularly in the area of health promotion.

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Wellness Self‐care by Healthy Older Adults

Abstract: Participant statements of actions can provide inspiration for less-active seniors and a beginning framework for nurses for understanding and supporting wellness self-care behaviors in older adults.

Cited by 17 publications

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Health-promoting lifestyle and quality of life among undergraduate students at school of health, Isfahan university of medical sciences

Health-promoting lifestyle and quality of life among undergraduate students at school of health, Isfahan university of medical sciences

Self‐care as a health resource of elders: an integrative review of the concept

Towards an ontological theory of wellness: a discussion of conceptual foundations and implications for nursing

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