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- Title
A Qualitative Analysis of Personal Health Care Challenges Experienced by Iranian Divorcees.
- Authors
Golboni, Farzaneh; Alimoradi, Zainab; Fridlund, Bengt; Årestedt, Liselott; Griffiths, Mark D.; Broström, Anders; Pakpour, Amir H.
- Abstract
Divorce, nowadays an increasingly more prevalent life event in Iran, can create poor general health among Iranian women, possibly due to bigger challenges for health-related behaviors. The aim was to explore challenges to achieve health-related behaviors as experienced by divorced Iranian women acting as household-heads. An inductive exploratory design based on qualitative content analysis was utilized. Twenty strategically selected divorced women acting as household-heads in Tehran were interviewed between September 2019 and January 2020. The divorced women experienced individual-centered and social and environmental-centered challenges concerning their health-related behaviors. Lack of competence, lack of personal control, and lack of emotional support were described as individualcentered barriers. Lack of community-based support, lack of financial support, and lack of labor market support were described as social and environmental challenges to health-related behaviors. A wide range of individual, social, and environmental-centered factors hindered divorced women acting as household-heads to engage in health-related behaviors. Therefore, personcentered interventions are necessary alongside efforts to develop appropriate policies and amend protection laws to increase the welfare and health of divorced women acting as household-heads.
- Subjects
IRAN; TEHRAN (Iran); DIVORCED women; CHILDREN of divorced parents; CONTROL (Psychology); IRANIANS; MEDICAL care; LABOR market
- Publication
Qualitative Report, 2022, Vol 27, Issue 12, p2783
- ISSN
1052-0147
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.46743/2160-3715/2022.5152