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Postmastectomy Information Needs and Information-seeking Motives for Women with Breast Cancer

BACKGROUND: Health information-seeking behavior is a key concept in the empowerment of women with breast cancer after mastectomy for self-care management. Thus, a real understanding of their information needs and their information-seeking behavior may open up new opportunities for their postsurgery...

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Autores principales: Latifi, Masoome, Salimi, Sohrab, Barahmand, Nilofar, Fahimnia, Fateme, Allahbakhshian Farsani, Leili
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5952531/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29862224
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/abr.abr_187_17
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author Latifi, Masoome
Salimi, Sohrab
Barahmand, Nilofar
Fahimnia, Fateme
Allahbakhshian Farsani, Leili
author_facet Latifi, Masoome
Salimi, Sohrab
Barahmand, Nilofar
Fahimnia, Fateme
Allahbakhshian Farsani, Leili
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description BACKGROUND: Health information-seeking behavior is a key concept in the empowerment of women with breast cancer after mastectomy for self-care management. Thus, a real understanding of their information needs and their information-seeking behavior may open up new opportunities for their postsurgery cares. The current research was conducted to identify the information needs and information-seeking motives of women with breast cancer after mastectomy. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This is an applied qualitative research. Samples included 17 women with breast cancer after mastectomy selected from two hospitals of Shahid Mohammadi and Persian Gulf and Omid Central Chemotherapy in Bandar Abbas. Data were collected using semi-structured interview on winter 2014 and analyzed using qualitative content analysis method. RESULTS: Three basic contents were extracted including information needs related to mental health, physical health related to disease and personal daily activities along with their subcategories, and representing common experience and perception of mastectomized women seeking for health information. Furthermore, hope, self-esteem, return to life, and available social support resources were expressed as the main information-seeking motives. CONCLUSION: Considering research findings, mastectomized women need to receive information in wide range of health and thus pursue purposeful behavior. Hence, it is necessary that required actions and measures are taken by health-care authorities, especially institutions responsible for women health, to support and meet information needs of the patients considering their information-seeking motives.
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spelling pubmed-59525312018-06-01 Postmastectomy Information Needs and Information-seeking Motives for Women with Breast Cancer Latifi, Masoome Salimi, Sohrab Barahmand, Nilofar Fahimnia, Fateme Allahbakhshian Farsani, Leili Adv Biomed Res Original Article BACKGROUND: Health information-seeking behavior is a key concept in the empowerment of women with breast cancer after mastectomy for self-care management. Thus, a real understanding of their information needs and their information-seeking behavior may open up new opportunities for their postsurgery cares. The current research was conducted to identify the information needs and information-seeking motives of women with breast cancer after mastectomy. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This is an applied qualitative research. Samples included 17 women with breast cancer after mastectomy selected from two hospitals of Shahid Mohammadi and Persian Gulf and Omid Central Chemotherapy in Bandar Abbas. Data were collected using semi-structured interview on winter 2014 and analyzed using qualitative content analysis method. RESULTS: Three basic contents were extracted including information needs related to mental health, physical health related to disease and personal daily activities along with their subcategories, and representing common experience and perception of mastectomized women seeking for health information. Furthermore, hope, self-esteem, return to life, and available social support resources were expressed as the main information-seeking motives. CONCLUSION: Considering research findings, mastectomized women need to receive information in wide range of health and thus pursue purposeful behavior. Hence, it is necessary that required actions and measures are taken by health-care authorities, especially institutions responsible for women health, to support and meet information needs of the patients considering their information-seeking motives. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018-04-25 /pmc/articles/PMC5952531/ /pubmed/29862224 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/abr.abr_187_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Advanced Biomedical Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Latifi, Masoome
Salimi, Sohrab
Barahmand, Nilofar
Fahimnia, Fateme
Allahbakhshian Farsani, Leili
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title_fullStr Postmastectomy Information Needs and Information-seeking Motives for Women with Breast Cancer
title_full_unstemmed Postmastectomy Information Needs and Information-seeking Motives for Women with Breast Cancer
title_short Postmastectomy Information Needs and Information-seeking Motives for Women with Breast Cancer
title_sort postmastectomy information needs and information-seeking motives for women with breast cancer
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5952531/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29862224
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/abr.abr_187_17
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