An empowerment model of Iranian women for the management of menopause: a grounded theory study
Background and Objectives: There is still no clear portrayal of women's empowerment in managing menopause. The present study was conducted to design a model for the empowerment of Iranian women in managing menopause. Materials and Methods: This qualitative study was conducted using the grounded...
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| author | Mansoureh Yazdkhasti Reza Negarandeh Zahra Behboodi Moghadam |
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| description | Background and Objectives: There is still no clear portrayal of women's empowerment in managing menopause. The present study was conducted to design a model for the empowerment of Iranian women in managing menopause. Materials and Methods: This qualitative study was conducted using the grounded theory on 40-60-year-old women who were first selected through purposive sampling and then by theoretical sampling from November 2013 to July 2016. Data were collected using 33 in-depth, semi-structured, individual interviews with 30 participants. Data were analyzed using the Strauss and Corbin(2008) approach and organized in MAXQDA-10. Results: The analysis of the data led to the emergence of "active coping with menopause" as the core variable with four themes. The two themes "threat to feminine identity" and "latent opportunity" explained the context of the study, and "redefining the feminine identity" and "self-retrieval" explained its process. Conclusion: In our social context, the phenomenon of menopause is a coin with two sides and its experience leans more on the threat to feminine identity and less on latent opportunity. The model of postmenopausal women’s empowerment for managing menopause might offer health policy-makers a realistic and divergent understanding of the challenges of empowering women by explaining key concepts. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a756f76627b9477988e99a7fb3dcca6c2024-02-01T14:39:34ZengTaylor & Francis GroupInternational Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-Being1748-26231748-26312019-01-0114110.1080/17482631.2019.16659581665958An empowerment model of Iranian women for the management of menopause: a grounded theory studyMansoureh Yazdkhasti0Reza Negarandeh1Zahra Behboodi Moghadam2Alborz University of Medical SciencesTehran University of Medical SciencesTehran University of Medical SciencesBackground and Objectives: There is still no clear portrayal of women's empowerment in managing menopause. The present study was conducted to design a model for the empowerment of Iranian women in managing menopause. Materials and Methods: This qualitative study was conducted using the grounded theory on 40-60-year-old women who were first selected through purposive sampling and then by theoretical sampling from November 2013 to July 2016. Data were collected using 33 in-depth, semi-structured, individual interviews with 30 participants. Data were analyzed using the Strauss and Corbin(2008) approach and organized in MAXQDA-10. Results: The analysis of the data led to the emergence of "active coping with menopause" as the core variable with four themes. The two themes "threat to feminine identity" and "latent opportunity" explained the context of the study, and "redefining the feminine identity" and "self-retrieval" explained its process. Conclusion: In our social context, the phenomenon of menopause is a coin with two sides and its experience leans more on the threat to feminine identity and less on latent opportunity. The model of postmenopausal women’s empowerment for managing menopause might offer health policy-makers a realistic and divergent understanding of the challenges of empowering women by explaining key concepts.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17482631.2019.1665958empowermentmenopausegender identitieshealth promotiongrounded theory |
| spellingShingle | Mansoureh Yazdkhasti Reza Negarandeh Zahra Behboodi Moghadam An empowerment model of Iranian women for the management of menopause: a grounded theory study International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health & Well-Being empowerment menopause gender identities health promotion grounded theory |
| title | An empowerment model of Iranian women for the management of menopause: a grounded theory study |
| title_full | An empowerment model of Iranian women for the management of menopause: a grounded theory study |
| title_fullStr | An empowerment model of Iranian women for the management of menopause: a grounded theory study |
| title_full_unstemmed | An empowerment model of Iranian women for the management of menopause: a grounded theory study |
| title_short | An empowerment model of Iranian women for the management of menopause: a grounded theory study |
| title_sort | empowerment model of iranian women for the management of menopause a grounded theory study |
| topic | empowerment menopause gender identities health promotion grounded theory |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17482631.2019.1665958 |
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