{"title":"Higher education as a pathway for female immigrants' establishment and well-being in Sweden.","authors":"My Blomberg, Jennie Ryding, Krister Hertting","doi":"10.1080/17482631.2024.2365443","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17482631.2024.2365443","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>This study focuses on higher education as a pathway to establishment in a new society for female immigrants and its role in well-being. Building on previous research that highlights social capital and empowerment as significant factors for successful establishment in a new society, and experiencing well-being, this study aims to explore if higher education can promote female immigrants' establishment in Swedish society.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Interviews were used to explore female immigrants' experiences of higher education and establishment in Swedish society. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the empirical material, generating a nuanced understanding of the studied topic.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Higher education was found to promote establishment in Swedish society, ultimately leading to an experience of well-being. Pursuing higher education was perceived as a means of achieving personal fulfilment and success while fostering new social connections. Important factors in pursuing higher education included favourable living conditions, personal motivation, and a positive educational attitude.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The study provides insights into female immigrants' higher education experiences in a context that promotes establishment in Swedish society and well-being. However, more research is needed to fully investigate the driving factors for female immigrants pursuing higher education, considering their migrant background and living conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":51468,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-Being","volume":"19 1","pages":"2365443"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11177707/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141318938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anne Helene Mortensen, Dagfinn Nåden, Dag Karterud, Ann Gallagher, Vibeke Lohne
{"title":"A qualitative study of family members' perspectives regarding decision-making for nursing home residents' care.","authors":"Anne Helene Mortensen, Dagfinn Nåden, Dag Karterud, Ann Gallagher, Vibeke Lohne","doi":"10.1080/17482631.2024.2370545","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17482631.2024.2370545","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>We explored how family caregivers perceive decision-making regarding the care of nursing home residents.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This qualitative study used Flemming's Gadamerian-based research method. In person semi-structured interviews about decision-making concerning residents' care were conducted with 13 family members (nine women, four men) of residents of three Norwegian nursing homes.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>The following themes emerged: Excessive focus on autonomy threatens resident wellbeing and safety. Resident wellbeing is the caregiver's responsibility. Resident wellbeing serves as a guiding principle.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The family members of residents and the nursing home caregivers disagreed about the significance of upholding resident autonomy to respect residents' dignity. The family members held that not all instances where residents refused care reflect autonomy situations as care refusal often does not reflect the resident's true values and standards but rather, stems from barriers that render necessary care actions difficult. In situations where residents refuse essential care or when the refusal does not align with the residents second-order values, the family members suggested that caregivers strive to understand the causes of refusal and seek non-coercive ways to navigate it. Hence, the family members seemed to endorse the use of soft paternalism in nursing homes to safeguard residents' wellbeing and dignity.</p>","PeriodicalId":51468,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-Being","volume":"19 1","pages":"2370545"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11195484/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141437751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lisa Herulf Scholander, Sofia Vikström, Anne-Marie Boström, Staffan Josephsson
{"title":"Inquiring into conditions for engaging in narrative relations on a geriatric ward - how interpretation matters in everyday practices.","authors":"Lisa Herulf Scholander, Sofia Vikström, Anne-Marie Boström, Staffan Josephsson","doi":"10.1080/17482631.2024.2367851","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17482631.2024.2367851","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Drawing on data from ethnographic fieldwork and interprofessional focus group discussions, this study enquires into staff's everyday life on a geriatric ward to explore and understand conditions for engaging in narrative relations in in-patient geriatric care. Avoiding individualistic understandings of narrative practices, we applied a narrative-in-action methodology built on a relational understanding of narrativity, where individual narratives are not separated from social and cultural features. This helped us explore how individual interpretations of the conditions for everyday practices come together with broader social or cultural understandings to gain situated insights about how these are continuously related and reformed by one another in everyday situations of geriatric care. The findings offer insights into the opportunities to engage in narrative relations based on how healthcare staff on a geriatric ward interpret conditions for their practices, and how they act based on such interpretations. While some interpretations were associated with attitudes and activities encouraging narrative relations, others simultaneously thwarted narrative relations by enacting task-orientation, division, or a focus on measurable biomedical or function-related outcomes. Moreover, the findings suggest and discuss consequences of the tensions created as interpretations are enacted in everyday healthcare situations, thus questioning assumptions about conditions as something static and linear.</p>","PeriodicalId":51468,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-Being","volume":"19 1","pages":"2367851"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11177706/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141318939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How culture shapes Chinese teacher's compassionate love.","authors":"Ling Lin, Meng Chen","doi":"10.1080/17482631.2024.2357147","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17482631.2024.2357147","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Love could play a role in motivating teachers to help students and is closely related to students' achievement and prosocial behaviour. Though influenced by culture, teachers' love is not adequately studied.</p><p><strong>Purpose: </strong>This study explores how Chinese teachers' compassionate love is expressed and how situational factors such as Chinese culture and history influence or motivate teachers to perceive and express compassionate love for students.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>This study adopted a qualitative approach of narrative study by describing and investigating the experience of a Chinese middle school teacher and two middle school students and their parents during COVID-19 pandemic.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>Chinese teacher's compassionate love demonstrates some universal features in terms of emotional response, cognitive understanding and behaviour. Furthermore some Chinese culture-related features are also found: Chinese teachers behave in a caring and supporting way at the cost of sacrificing their own free time and comfort; an enduring long-term teacher-student relationship is valued; the Chinese culture encourages, sustains and motivates Chinese teacher's compassionate love.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Teacher's compassionate love is a multi-dimensional concept entailing some universal traits in cognition, emotion and behaviour. The perception and enactment of teacher's love is subject to situational factors. Some measures for compassionate love could be built into teacher's education programme.</p>","PeriodicalId":51468,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-Being","volume":"19 1","pages":"2357147"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11107850/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141072187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Promoting mental health in higher education: towards a model of well-being factors in emerging adulthood.","authors":"Ariadna Martínez-García, Susana Valverde-Montesino, Mercedes García-García","doi":"10.1080/17482631.2024.2408831","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17482631.2024.2408831","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>This study aims to contribute to the development of a theoretical model that is useful for enhancing well-being/positive mental health with pedagogical resources that enable the acquisition of skills and knowledge, particularly during Emerging Adulthood.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This paper enquires into the role of well-being promotion in higher education following the dual-factor model of mental health difficulties and wellbeing. The study narratively reviews the main well-being models and presents a compared theoretical synthesis examining the dimensions that promote or facilitate the presence of well-being using a promotion approach.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The study identifies 14 dimensions involved in wellbeing-emotional, psychological and social factors-that can be potentially improved through learning processes. Drawing on empirical and theoretical studies on emerging adult population, a factorial model is proposed. Preliminary factor interactions are examined paying close attention to the cognitive processes that explain or affect their relationship with well-being, the possible correlations between them and particularities of emerging adults.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Wellbeing factors can be particularly targeted by educational promotion, as they can be developed through learning processes. An integrative model that provides a broad perspective can assist in pedagogical design and defining educational goals for these learning processes involved in wellbeing promotion.</p>","PeriodicalId":51468,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-Being","volume":"19 1","pages":"2408831"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11448348/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142367404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Barriers and facilitators to weight-loss in patients with overweight/obesity and cardiac disease: a realist qualitative synthesis.","authors":"Rachel Bates, Cara Bailey, Anne Topping","doi":"10.1080/17482631.2024.2419574","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17482631.2024.2419574","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Lifestyle advice for cardiac patients with overweight/obesity includes weight management, yet few achieve significant weight loss. People with heart disease may require different support to the general population. We synthesized evidence that reported cardiac patients' weight management experiences to identify barriers and facilitators to weight loss.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Our realist review identified five manuscripts reporting four studies of weight management experiences of people with heart disease. The capability, opportunity, motivation behaviour change model (COM-B) provided the framework for thematic synthesis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The studies included qualitative data from 117 participants and revealed factors favouring or impeding effective weight management during cardiac rehabilitation (CR) and in participants' daily lives. We identified four major themes illustrating participants' wish to change harmful health behaviours, adopting exercise and psychological strategies to facilitate change, social and professional support, and regaining control after a cardiac event. These themes broadly aligned with the COM-B categories of capability, opportunity, and motivation.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Most cardiac patients with overweight/obesity express a desire to lose weight. Participants preferred personalized services that could adapt to meet their individual needs, but struggled to make sustainable changes for interconnecting psychological, social, cultural, and financial reasons. Consideration of these complexities when designing programmes may help to support successful weight management.</p>","PeriodicalId":51468,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-Being","volume":"19 1","pages":"2419574"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11514393/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142512699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Maintaining good mental health in people with inflammatory arthritis: a qualitative study of patients' perspectives.","authors":"Signe Marie Abild, Julie Midtgaard, Annika Nordkamp, Annette de Thurah, Sofie Bech Vestergaard, Bente Glintborg, Mette Aadahl, Pernille Fevejle Cromhout, Lene Lau, Connie Yilmaz, Bente Appel Esbensen","doi":"10.1080/17482631.2024.2424015","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17482631.2024.2424015","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>It is well-documented that people with inflammatory arthritis (IA) exhibit a high prevalence of symptoms related to anxiety and depression. Less is known about what contributes to good mental health in people with IA. Therefore, this study aims to explore how some patients maintain good mental health despite living with IA.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Explorative qualitative interview study (one focus group, 12 individual interviews, <i>n</i> = 18) utilizing purposeful sampling. All interviews were audiotaped, transcribed, and managed using NVivo14 and employed a reflexive thematical analysis approach.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We identified four main themes: 1) <i>Assisted by a positive outlook on life</i>-how participants' inherent positivity helped them cope with arthritis; 2) <i>Moving towards acceptance of life with arthritis</i>-how participants embraced the reality of living with IA; 3) <i>Counteracting letting arthritis dictate one's life</i> how the participants structured their lives in terms of physical activity and social connections; and 4) <i>Taking responsibility for the trajectory</i>-how the participants were mindful of their bodies and took the initiative to explore new treatments.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>People living with IA maintain good mental health by engaging in structured physical activity, fostering social connections, and cultivating a positive outlook on life. These insights can inform the development of future treatment and support strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":51468,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-Being","volume":"19 1","pages":"2424015"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11544728/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142591552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Undergraduates' knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours associated with fad diets.","authors":"Andrea T Kozak, Noah Garber, Virginia Uhley","doi":"10.1080/17482631.2024.2309687","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17482631.2024.2309687","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>We aimed to determine undergraduate students' use and knowledge of fad diets as well as examine how appealing students found these diets given the goal of rapid weight loss and/or improved health. Twenty-three students from a Midwestern university (mean age = 19.2, mean BMI = 27.35, 69.6% female) were recruited through new student orientations for this qualitative study. Approximately 52% of participants identified as White, 30% as Black, 13% as Asian, and 4% as multi-racial.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Knowledge and opinions about fad diets were collected via focus groups and individual interviews. Coding of transcripts was conducted by hand using the constant comparative method and data were analysed based on grounded theory.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Two primary themes emerged: very negative views of fad diets and the importance of healthy eating. Although few participants had tried fad diets, they thought these diets: 1) did not lead to sustained weight loss, 2) were associated with disappointment and health issues, and 3) were money-making schemes delivered heavily through social media. Participants also valued healthy eating.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Experimental studies are needed to examine how healthy eating among university students can be supported through credible sources, accurate information, and established connections via innovative social media platforms.</p>","PeriodicalId":51468,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-Being","volume":"19 1","pages":"2309687"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10829839/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139643322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Birgitte Westerskov Dalgas, Karsten Elmose-Østerlund, Thomas Viskum Gjelstrup Bredahl
{"title":"Exploring basic psychological needs within and across domains of physical activity.","authors":"Birgitte Westerskov Dalgas, Karsten Elmose-Østerlund, Thomas Viskum Gjelstrup Bredahl","doi":"10.1080/17482631.2024.2308994","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17482631.2024.2308994","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>This study explored variations in adults' experience of satisfaction, unfulfilment and frustration of basic psychological needs within and across four domains of physical activity: Transport, household, occupation, and recreation.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We utilized a qualitative approach, conducting semi-structured interviews with a diverse group of 42 Danish adults. The participants ranged in age from 16 to 79 years (mean age 49 years, SD 21 years), gender (45% men, 55% women), and physical activity levels (38% low, 33% average, 29% high). Data were analysed using a thematic analysis, applying Self-Determination Theory as the guiding framework.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In the Transport domain, while most activities were seen as utilitarian necessities, autonomy satisfaction emerged for some through control over their means of transport. In Household domain, tasks were generally viewed as obligatory; however, activities with personal significance led to autonomy satisfaction and skill development. Occupation-wise, physical activity satisfaction varied, with the nature of the job impacting feelings of autonomy and competence. For Recreation domain, personal choice dictated autonomy satisfaction, with competence and relatedness varying according to goal achievement and social interactions.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The variations in the findings across domains indicate the effectiveness of applying strategies tailored to specific domains for enhancing need satisfaction.</p>","PeriodicalId":51468,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-Being","volume":"19 1","pages":"2308994"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10854434/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139703985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The intersection between logical empiricism and qualitative nursing research: a post-structuralist analysis.","authors":"Martin Salzmann-Erikson","doi":"10.1080/17482631.2024.2315636","DOIUrl":"10.1080/17482631.2024.2315636","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To shed light on and analyse the intersection between logical empiricism and qualitative nursing research, and to emphasize a post-structuralist critique to traditional methodological constraints.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In this study, a critical examination is conducted through a post-structuralist lens, evaluating entrenched methodologies within nursing research. This approach facilitates a nuanced exploration of the intersection between logical empiricism and qualitative nursing research, challenging traditional methodological paradigms.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The article focusing on the \"what abouts\" of sample size, analytic framework, data source, data analysis, and rigour and methodological considerations, challenging the predominance of semi-structured interviews and the reliance on spoken voice as primary data sources, and re-evaluating the conventional notion of \"rigour\".</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>I advocate for a shift from qualitative positivism towards more interpretive and post-qualitative inquiries, this work proposes new trajectories through interpretive, critical, post-qualitative, and artistic turns in nursing research, aiming to transcend positivist limitations and foster a plurality of perspectives and research as praxis. Implications emphasize the need for nursing researchers to expand methodological horizons, incorporating visual and artistic methods to enrich understanding and representation of health experiences, moving beyond positivist norms towards a more inclusive and ethically sound research paradigm.</p>","PeriodicalId":51468,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-Being","volume":"19 1","pages":"2315636"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10863514/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139724931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}