Postmastectomy Information Needs and Information-seeking Motives for Women with Breast Cancer
| Autor: | Nilofar Barahmand, Leili Allahbakhshian Farsani, Fateme Fahimnia, Sohrab Salimi, Masoome Latifi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Activities of daily living
media_common.quotation_subject lcsh:Medicine Information needs 03 medical and health sciences Social support 0302 clinical medicine Breast cancer Nursing medicine need 030212 general & internal medicine Empowerment lcsh:QH301-705.5 media_common Breast neoplasm Information seeking lcsh:R mastectomy General Medicine medicine.disease Mental health lcsh:Biology (General) 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis information-seeking motives Original Article women Psychology Qualitative research |
| Zdroj: | Advanced Biomedical Research Advanced Biomedical Research, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 75-75 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 2277-9175 |
| DOI: | 10.4103/abr.abr_187_17 |
| Popis: | 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. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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