PERCEIVED DURATION OF TIME AND BED REST IN HIGH RISK PREGNANCY: AN EXPLORATION OF THE NEWMAN MODEL.
Contributors: University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.
Published: 1993
Number of pages: 136
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: This study used both quantitative and qualitative methods to test Margaret Newman's proposition that time is a function of movement and that perceived duration of time is an indicator of consciousness. In addition, Ilya Prigogine's theory of dissipative structures was explored as an extension of the Newman model. Quasi-experimental methods were used to compare perceived duration of time/consciousness indexes in 20 low risk mobile pregnant women and 20 high risk pregnant women experiencing prolonged bed rest in pregnancy. The quantitative measures of perceived duration/consciousness indexes as measured failed to yield significant findings regarding time and movement in this sample of pregnant women. The qualitative, descriptive portion of this study explored the experience of bed rest and time in high risk pregnancy, and these descriptions provided insights into women's experience of time when experiencing restricted mobility. In addition, insights were gained into the experience of high risk pregnancy, the experience of bed rest, the obstetrical approach to high risk pregnancy, obstetrical technology, family relationships, and correlates of successful and unsuccessful maintenance of bed rest. Second level qualitative analysis explored the high risk women's passivity regarding the total medical control of pregnancy and birth, and the ways this medical narration of high risk pregnancy resulted in the woman's alienation from her own bodily experience of pregnancy. Implications for nursing practice, education and research were discussed. Results of the study will be helpful to nurses caring for women experiencing complex pregnancies, while contributing to the testing, development and utilization of nursing theory.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-04, Section: B, page: 1894.

Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER, 1993.

School code: 0831.