Post-mastectomy Barriers for Information Seeking in Women with Breast Cancer
Introduction: Women experience many challenges post mastectomy. Information seeking plays a key role in empowering them to do self-care, improving their quality of life and improving their health. However, individual and contextual barriers hinder their access to needed information. This research ai...
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| author | Masoumeh Latifi Nilofar Barahmand Fatemeh Fahimnia |
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| description | Introduction: Women experience many challenges post mastectomy. Information seeking plays a key role in empowering them to do self-care, improving their quality of life and improving their health. However, individual and contextual barriers hinder their access to needed information. This research aimed to identify those barriers.
Methods: This was a qualitative research using conventional content analysis. 17 women were recruited through purposive sampling in Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan Province, Iran, and semi-structured interviews were conducted among them.
Results: Seven central themes were emerged to explain women's experiences of barriers in information seeking post mastectomy among which fear, shame, and inadequate literacy were individual; and economic status, physicians and healthcare personnel, lack of access to information resources and others’ behavior were contextual barriers.
Conclusion: Despite the necessity of access to health information for women post mastectomy, results showed individual and contextual information seeking barriers. Hence, necessary actions should be taken by health authorities especially institutions for women health to reform and revise heath system in order to tackle information seeking barriers for women post mastectomy. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b181266f74e8457ba61fa7ce71886e582022-12-22T00:38:46ZfasVesnu Publicationsمدیریت اطلاعات سلامت1735-78531735-98132016-12-01135326332851Post-mastectomy Barriers for Information Seeking in Women with Breast CancerMasoumeh Latifi0Nilofar Barahmand1Fatemeh Fahimnia2PhD Student, Knowledge and Information Science, Department of Knowledge and Information Science, School of Psychology and Education Sciences, Kharazmi University, Tehran, IranPhD Student, Knowledge and Information Science, Department of Knowledge and Information Science, School of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, IranAssociate Professor, Department of Knowledge and Information Science, School of Management, University of Tehran, Tehran, IranIntroduction: Women experience many challenges post mastectomy. Information seeking plays a key role in empowering them to do self-care, improving their quality of life and improving their health. However, individual and contextual barriers hinder their access to needed information. This research aimed to identify those barriers. Methods: This was a qualitative research using conventional content analysis. 17 women were recruited through purposive sampling in Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan Province, Iran, and semi-structured interviews were conducted among them. Results: Seven central themes were emerged to explain women's experiences of barriers in information seeking post mastectomy among which fear, shame, and inadequate literacy were individual; and economic status, physicians and healthcare personnel, lack of access to information resources and others’ behavior were contextual barriers. Conclusion: Despite the necessity of access to health information for women post mastectomy, results showed individual and contextual information seeking barriers. Hence, necessary actions should be taken by health authorities especially institutions for women health to reform and revise heath system in order to tackle information seeking barriers for women post mastectomy.http://him.mui.ac.ir/index.php/him/article/view/2649Information Seeking BehaviorWomenBreast NeoplasmsMastectomy |
| spellingShingle | Masoumeh Latifi Nilofar Barahmand Fatemeh Fahimnia Post-mastectomy Barriers for Information Seeking in Women with Breast Cancer مدیریت اطلاعات سلامت Information Seeking Behavior Women Breast Neoplasms Mastectomy |
| title | Post-mastectomy Barriers for Information Seeking in Women with Breast Cancer |
| title_full | Post-mastectomy Barriers for Information Seeking in Women with Breast Cancer |
| title_fullStr | Post-mastectomy Barriers for Information Seeking in Women with Breast Cancer |
| title_full_unstemmed | Post-mastectomy Barriers for Information Seeking in Women with Breast Cancer |
| title_short | Post-mastectomy Barriers for Information Seeking in Women with Breast Cancer |
| title_sort | post mastectomy barriers for information seeking in women with breast cancer |
| topic | Information Seeking Behavior Women Breast Neoplasms Mastectomy |
| url | http://him.mui.ac.ir/index.php/him/article/view/2649 |
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