Abstract

Examples of pregnancy-specific health beliefs and practices of Hispanic women are found in the medical literature, but the findings regarding the beliefs and practices are often outdated, limited, mostly curative in nature, and are often dismissed as benign cultural practices of a mainly homogeneous cultural group. Hispanic women incorporate both conventional and biomedical practices with traditional medicine/complementary and alternative medicine in their treatment of illnesses. The findings from this study served to illustrate current pregnancy-specific health beliefs and practices of pregnant Hispanic women of Mexican origin. The purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of the pregnancy-specific health beliefs and practices that pregnant women of Mexican origin engage in and to explore the decision-making process related to the adoption, alteration, or rejection of these beliefs and practices. Using grounded theory methodology allowed the emergence of a theory grounded in the lives of the women in this study.

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Author Details

Lorena Consuelo Guerrero, PhD, ARNP, FNP-BC

Sigma Membership

Psi at-Large

Type

Dissertation

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

Grounded Theory

Research Approach

Qualitative Research

Keywords:

Cultural Beliefs about Pregnancy, Hispanic Women, Pregnant Women

Advisor

Kay A. Avant

Degree

PhD

Degree Grantor

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Degree Year

2009

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None: Degree-based Submission

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Proxy-submission

Date of Issue

2019-09-10

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