Pain, health and sickness culture : nurses’, health users’ and healers’ perception
Objective: To present the perception that nursing staff, health service users and traditional physicians have in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico, concerning health, sickness, pain management culture, and traditional healing methods. Methodology: Exploratory study. Population composed of 153 nurses, 253...
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| description | Objective: To present the perception that nursing staff, health service users and traditional physicians have in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico, concerning health, sickness, pain management culture, and traditional healing methods. Methodology: Exploratory study. Population composed of 153 nurses, 253 patients and 6 healers. Results: Nursing staff: 40.52% graduate level with some specialty; 63.39 % defined health as a physical well-being; 36.60 % defined sickness as a misbalance in one’s organism; 60.78 % defined pain as a manifestation of physical discomfort. Patients: 70.68% were male; for 78% of them, elementary school was the highest academic level. From these, 37.74% defined health as the most important part of their lives, 52.60 % defined sickness as something harmful for human beings; 50.60% defined pain as a discomfort. Healers considered it as their mission to use herbs, candles, spirits and praying to help people regain health. Conclusions: Nursing staff must bear in mind that there is much cultural diversity in all the different population groups, when offering nursing services to their patients in a respectful way. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-187e52a64881484ba0642217c779af4d2022-12-21T17:50:26ZspaUniversidad de AlicanteCultura de los Cuidados1699-60032012-06-01019637210.14198/cuid.2006.19.097336Pain, health and sickness culture : nurses’, health users’ and healers’ perceptionRosa Margarita Ortega-LópezObjective: To present the perception that nursing staff, health service users and traditional physicians have in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico, concerning health, sickness, pain management culture, and traditional healing methods. Methodology: Exploratory study. Population composed of 153 nurses, 253 patients and 6 healers. Results: Nursing staff: 40.52% graduate level with some specialty; 63.39 % defined health as a physical well-being; 36.60 % defined sickness as a misbalance in one’s organism; 60.78 % defined pain as a manifestation of physical discomfort. Patients: 70.68% were male; for 78% of them, elementary school was the highest academic level. From these, 37.74% defined health as the most important part of their lives, 52.60 % defined sickness as something harmful for human beings; 50.60% defined pain as a discomfort. Healers considered it as their mission to use herbs, candles, spirits and praying to help people regain health. Conclusions: Nursing staff must bear in mind that there is much cultural diversity in all the different population groups, when offering nursing services to their patients in a respectful way.https://culturacuidados.ua.es/article/view/2006-n19-cultura-del-dolor-salud-y-enfermedad-percepcion-de-enfermeria-usuarios-de-salud-y-curanderosCulturaDolorSaludEnfermedadMétodos tradicionales de curación |
| spellingShingle | Rosa Margarita Ortega-López Pain, health and sickness culture : nurses’, health users’ and healers’ perception Cultura de los Cuidados Cultura Dolor Salud Enfermedad Métodos tradicionales de curación |
| title | Pain, health and sickness culture : nurses’, health users’ and healers’ perception |
| title_full | Pain, health and sickness culture : nurses’, health users’ and healers’ perception |
| title_fullStr | Pain, health and sickness culture : nurses’, health users’ and healers’ perception |
| title_full_unstemmed | Pain, health and sickness culture : nurses’, health users’ and healers’ perception |
| title_short | Pain, health and sickness culture : nurses’, health users’ and healers’ perception |
| title_sort | pain health and sickness culture nurses health users and healers perception |
| topic | Cultura Dolor Salud Enfermedad Métodos tradicionales de curación |
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