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Health status and psychological well-being in elderly women: The self-system as mediator
The purpose of this research was to explain how elderly women manage to maintain high levels of psychological well-being despite losses associated with aging, especially loss of health, and to examine this process in ...
The process of recovering in women who have been depressed
Women are twice as likely as men to suffer from depression and one woman in four is likely to suffer from a serious depressive episode at some time in her life (Wood, 1989). Literature abounds on the treatment of depression ...
Self-regulation and Exercise Maintenance in Older Women
The purpose of this study was to examine factors that influence exercise maintenance in an older population using the self-regulation of exercise maintenance model which focuses on the individual's personal meaning or ...
Social Support, Psychological and Physical States among Japanese Women with Breast Cancer
In Western cultures, it has been reported that social support has effects on health outcomes among women with breast cancer. However, little is known about social support and the effects on health outcomes among Japanese ...
Creative Thinking Ability of Women in Nursing
A nonexperimental, descriptive, correlational design was used to determine the level of creative thinking ability of 60, randomly selected, baccalaureate junior and senior female nursing students. The relationship between ...
Salvaging Self: A Grounded Theory Study of Pregnancy on Crack Cocaine
To explore the experiences and concerns of pregnant women who use crack cocaine, 60 pregnant and postpartum women who had used crack cocaine an average of at least once weekly during pregnancy were recruited in a West Coast ...
Circadian Body Temperature and Activation Rhythms and the Well-being of Independent Older Women
This study examined changes in the circadian parameters of body temperature and activation and their relationship to the well-being of the older woman. The literature on human rhythms provided the background for the ...
Issues Influencing Medication Adherence in Black Women with Hypertension
The purposes of this study were to: (a) describe the differences in adherent and nonadherent Black women who have hypertension (HTN), (b) examine issues that influence medication adherence, and (c) explore the relationship ...
Sociocultural, Physiologic, and Psychologic Variables That Influence Pain in the Fibromyalgia Patient
It is estimated that fibromyalgia, a chronic condition in which pain occurs in 98% of the patients, can be found in 3- to 6-million American adults with females as the majority of those suffering. The purpose of this study ...
The relationship of self-efficacy, social support, self-esteem, and hope with sex related health promotion behaviors in HIV-infected and uninfected women
The Sex Related Health Promotion Behaviors Model (SRHPBM), suggesting a positive relationship between self-efficacy, social support, self esteem, hope, and sex related health promotion behaviors, was used in this descriptive ...