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Experiences of health-promoting self-care in people living with rheumatic diseases
Development Centre, Spenshult Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Oskarström, Sweden & School of Health Sciences, Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5647-086X
Development Centre, Spenshult Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Oskarström, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6294-538X
Halmstad University, School of Health and Welfare, Centre of Research on Welfare, Health and Sport (CVHI). Research and Development Centre, Spenshult Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Oskarström, Sweden & Faculty of Health Care and Nursing, Gjøvik University College, Gjøvik, Norway.
School of Health Sciences, Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden.
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2011 (English)In: Journal of Advanced Nursing, ISSN 0309-2402, E-ISSN 1365-2648, Vol. 67, no 6, p. 1264-1272Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Aim: This paper is a report of a study that explores and describes the meaning of the phenomenon of health-promoting self-care as experienced by people living with rheumatic diseases.

Background: People with rheumatic diseases estimate health status as low and health belief and health status influence self-care behaviours. Several self-care behaviours are used in the efforts to mitigate the diseases.

Method: The study had a descriptive phenomenological approach based on a reflective life-world perspective. Data were gathered in 2007 by unstructured open-ended interviews with 12 individuals living with rheumatic diseases.

Findings: The meaning of health-promoting self-care as experienced by people living with rheumatic diseases was that self-care takes place against a background of continual hope and belief to influence health in positive ways. Self-care was a way of life and implied being ready to understand and respond to signals from the body. Three inter-related constituents elucidated their experiences: dialogue, power struggle and choice. Self-care was experienced as dialogues with the body and with the immediate environment. In order to respond to signals from the body, power struggles were required to be entered into when fighting the diseases. Choices were required to be made and things that were beneficial for the body were prioritized.

Conclusion: In this study, the meaning of health-promoting self-care as experienced by people living with rheumatic diseases was that self-care was a way of life. This meant to be ready to understand and respond to signals from the body. Self-care required dialogues, power struggles and choices. © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

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Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2011. Vol. 67, no 6, p. 1264-1272
Keywords [en]
Adults, Health promoting self-care, Nursing, Phenomenology, Rheumatic diseases, Self-care
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Nursing
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-16853DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2648.2010.05585.xISI: 000290398300010PubMedID: 21323976Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-79955730899OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-16853DiVA, id: diva2:471146
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Funding: The Swedish Rheumatism Association, the Rheumatism District in Gothenburg, the Halland County Council and South Regional Health Care Committee.

Available from: 2012-01-01 Created: 2012-01-01 Last updated: 2020-03-20Bibliographically approved
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1. Health promoting factors in people with chronic musculoskeletal pain or with rheumatic diseases: a desciptive and interventional study
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Health promoting factors in people with chronic musculoskeletal pain or with rheumatic diseases: a desciptive and interventional study
2011 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Aim: The overall aim of this thesis with a salutogenic approach was to describe health promoting factors in people with chronic musculoskeletal pain and in people with rheumatic diseases, and to evaluate the effects of an intervention study with a self-care promoting PBL-program for people with rheumatic diseases having chronic musculoskeletal pain, sleep disturbances and/or fatigue.

Methods: This thesis is comprised of four samples: a randomly selected sample from a Swedish general population (study I) and three different samples containing people with rheumatic diseases registered at a hospital for rheumatic diseases in the southwest of Sweden (studies II, III and IV). Study I had a longitudinal cohort design with an eight-year follow-up in a general population. There were 1109 participants without chronic pain and 700 participants with chronic musculoskeletal pain. Study II had a longitudinal cohort design with participants with rheumatic diseases (n=185) 12 months after rehabilitation at a hospital for rheumatic diseases. Study III had a descriptive qualitative design with a phenomenological approach based on a reflective life-world perspective. Twelve participants were interviewed about their experiences about health-promoting self-care. Study IV had a randomised controlled design with post-test six months after the one-year self-care promoting problem-based learning (PBL) program for people with rheumatic diseases. The participants were randomly assigned to the experimental group, 54 participants, or to the control group, 148 participants. Data in studies I, II and IV were analysed with statistics. In study III a Husserlian phenomenological approach based on a reflective life-world perspective was used in the data collection and analysis.

Results: Study I: Although participants without chronic musculoskeletal pain reported better health-related quality of life (HRQL) than participants with chronic musculoskeletal pain, similar health factors were found to promote a better HRQL in the eight-year follow-up. The most important factors were feeling rested after sleep and having good sleep structure. Study II: The most important factors promoting better outcome in HRQL 12 months after rehabilitation in participants with rheumatic diseases were having a strong sense of coherence (SOC), feeling rested after sleep, having work capacity, and having good sleep structure. Study III: The meaning of health-promoting self-care as experienced by people with rheumatic diseases was that self-care takes place against a background of continual hope and belief to be able to influence health in positive ways. Self-care was a way of life and implied being ready to understand and respond to signals from the body. Three interrelated constituents elucidated the experiences: dialogue, power struggle and choice. Study IV: At the six month follow-up the participants in the experimental group had stronger empowerment after participation in the self-care promoting PBL-program compared with the control group which only got standard care for people with rheumatic diseases. There were no differences in HRQL, self-care ability, SOC, pain, quality of sleep or fatigue between the experimental group and the control group. The participants in the experimental group also stated that they had implemented lifestyle changes which they had not done without the PBL-program.

Conclusion: The results of this thesis provide a valuable and useful insight in health promoting factors in people with chronic musculoskeletal pain and in people with rheumatic diseases, but also in that people with rheumatic diseases have benefit from taking part in patient education with a self-care promoting PBL-program. These results contribute to evidence supporting the introduction of a more salutogenic approach in rheumatology care and research.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Jönköping: Jönköping University, 2011. p. 164
Series
Dissertation series (School of Health Sciences, Jönköping University), ISSN 1654-3602 ; 17
Keywords
Adult, chronic musculoskeletal pain, empowerment, health factors, HRQL, intervention, patient education, problem-based learning, rheumatic diseases, self-care
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Medical and Health Sciences
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urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-28606 (URN)978-91-85835-16-4 (ISBN)
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2011-06-01, Forum Humanum, Hälsohögskolan, Jönköping, 09:30 (Swedish)
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Available from: 2015-07-28 Created: 2015-06-16 Last updated: 2016-10-21Bibliographically approved

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