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Women's Quality of Life in Iran: A Mixed Method Study

BACKGROUND: Quality of life drives from the individuals' perceptions of their position in life long and allows holistic assessment of the effects of health conditions beyond the symptoms, signs, and complications. This study aimed to assess the quality of life and recognize females' point...

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Autores principales: Seyed-Nematollah-Roshan, Fatemeh Sadat, Alhani, Fatemeh, Zareiyan, Armin, Kazemnejad, Anoshirvan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7299413/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32724767
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnmr.IJNMR_199_18
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author Seyed-Nematollah-Roshan, Fatemeh Sadat
Alhani, Fatemeh
Zareiyan, Armin
Kazemnejad, Anoshirvan
author_facet Seyed-Nematollah-Roshan, Fatemeh Sadat
Alhani, Fatemeh
Zareiyan, Armin
Kazemnejad, Anoshirvan
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description BACKGROUND: Quality of life drives from the individuals' perceptions of their position in life long and allows holistic assessment of the effects of health conditions beyond the symptoms, signs, and complications. This study aimed to assess the quality of life and recognize females' point of view about the quality of life aspects. Hence, perhaps it could be a step toward improving women's health status. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study was an explanatory mixed method research one which was conducted in the two following steps. In the quantitative step, five hundred women aged 15–49 years were selected from varied zone of Tehran Province, using cluster random sampling method. In order to assess the quality of life, Short Form SF-36 instrument was used. In the qualitative step, forty women were selected by purposive sampling in a different range of quality of life based on the result of the first step. Data were collected through semistructured, in-depth individual interviews, which continued up to data saturation point. Data analysis was performed through conventional content analysis. RESULTS: Among different aspects of quality of life, the highest and the lowest means (SD) were related to physical functioning mean (SD) 70.58 (24.52) and general health 67.72 (27.66), and mental health 55.27 (30.22) and social functioning 57.02 (30.62), respectively. From the interviews, three main themes were extracted as the following: (i) financial support, (ii) informational support, and (iii) service-based social support. CONCLUSIONS: The present study revealed that Tehranian women do not have high experience related to the quality of life; however, a sense of receiving support from different sources could help them to wrestle with a complicated condition in everyday life.
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spelling pubmed-72994132020-07-27 Women's Quality of Life in Iran: A Mixed Method Study Seyed-Nematollah-Roshan, Fatemeh Sadat Alhani, Fatemeh Zareiyan, Armin Kazemnejad, Anoshirvan Iran J Nurs Midwifery Res Original Article BACKGROUND: Quality of life drives from the individuals' perceptions of their position in life long and allows holistic assessment of the effects of health conditions beyond the symptoms, signs, and complications. This study aimed to assess the quality of life and recognize females' point of view about the quality of life aspects. Hence, perhaps it could be a step toward improving women's health status. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study was an explanatory mixed method research one which was conducted in the two following steps. In the quantitative step, five hundred women aged 15–49 years were selected from varied zone of Tehran Province, using cluster random sampling method. In order to assess the quality of life, Short Form SF-36 instrument was used. In the qualitative step, forty women were selected by purposive sampling in a different range of quality of life based on the result of the first step. Data were collected through semistructured, in-depth individual interviews, which continued up to data saturation point. Data analysis was performed through conventional content analysis. RESULTS: Among different aspects of quality of life, the highest and the lowest means (SD) were related to physical functioning mean (SD) 70.58 (24.52) and general health 67.72 (27.66), and mental health 55.27 (30.22) and social functioning 57.02 (30.62), respectively. From the interviews, three main themes were extracted as the following: (i) financial support, (ii) informational support, and (iii) service-based social support. CONCLUSIONS: The present study revealed that Tehranian women do not have high experience related to the quality of life; however, a sense of receiving support from different sources could help them to wrestle with a complicated condition in everyday life. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020-04-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7299413/ /pubmed/32724767 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnmr.IJNMR_199_18 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery 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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Alhani, Fatemeh
Zareiyan, Armin
Kazemnejad, Anoshirvan
Women's Quality of Life in Iran: A Mixed Method Study
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title_full Women's Quality of Life in Iran: A Mixed Method Study
title_fullStr Women's Quality of Life in Iran: A Mixed Method Study
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title_short Women's Quality of Life in Iran: A Mixed Method Study
title_sort women's quality of life in iran: a mixed method study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7299413/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32724767
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnmr.IJNMR_199_18
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