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Symposium: Challenges in the context of self-care and family caregivers

Abstract

Purpose: Chronic disease and its comorbidities represent the cause of episodes of hospitalization for lack of disease control, or its consequences. Ineffective self-management contributes to hospital readmissions and the high number of episodes of specialized care, indicates deficiencies in primary care. The study purpose was creat an explanatory model on self-management carried out by people with demonstration of ineffectiveness, in order to infer the elements of a health intervention that promotes a responsible self-management.

Methods: Selected for study were those with chronic illness, with five or more hospitalizations. Twenty-two participants were followed for a maximum of a year and a half, in a multicases study(1). Data were obtained from the analysis of documentation, participant observation and interviews. The data were analyzed according to the method proposed by Strauss and Corbin, to generate a Grounded Theory (2,3). Beginning with a microanalysis, which was organized in an open coding, than grouping the concepts and their relationships through an axial analysis, and summarizing the data, drawing up theoretical reduction in a selective coding, finally, presenting the theory.

Results: In this study emerge a pattern of vulnerability with personal and contextual conditions. Socio-economic and cultural poverty arises like the context of greater vulnerability straight by family background(4).

Conclusion: Analysis of personal circumstances showed that attitude toward life and illness and personal attributes grouped participants in four patterns, which we named as "style": responsible, independent, formally guided and negligent. Some of these conditions are hardly conducive to a healthy transition (5) and Identify the style of self-management can enable nurses to anticipate some difficulties.

Author Details

Fernanda Bastos, PhD, MsC

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Non-member

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Keywords:

Self-Care, Vulnerability, Self-Management

Conference Name

25th International Nursing Research Congress

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Sigma Theta Tau International

Conference Location

Hong Kong

Conference Year

2014

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Self-management on chronic diseases

Hong Kong

Purpose: Chronic disease and its comorbidities represent the cause of episodes of hospitalization for lack of disease control, or its consequences. Ineffective self-management contributes to hospital readmissions and the high number of episodes of specialized care, indicates deficiencies in primary care. The study purpose was creat an explanatory model on self-management carried out by people with demonstration of ineffectiveness, in order to infer the elements of a health intervention that promotes a responsible self-management.

Methods: Selected for study were those with chronic illness, with five or more hospitalizations. Twenty-two participants were followed for a maximum of a year and a half, in a multicases study(1). Data were obtained from the analysis of documentation, participant observation and interviews. The data were analyzed according to the method proposed by Strauss and Corbin, to generate a Grounded Theory (2,3). Beginning with a microanalysis, which was organized in an open coding, than grouping the concepts and their relationships through an axial analysis, and summarizing the data, drawing up theoretical reduction in a selective coding, finally, presenting the theory.

Results: In this study emerge a pattern of vulnerability with personal and contextual conditions. Socio-economic and cultural poverty arises like the context of greater vulnerability straight by family background(4).

Conclusion: Analysis of personal circumstances showed that attitude toward life and illness and personal attributes grouped participants in four patterns, which we named as "style": responsible, independent, formally guided and negligent. Some of these conditions are hardly conducive to a healthy transition (5) and Identify the style of self-management can enable nurses to anticipate some difficulties.