FLEXIBLE TIME MANAGEMENT: WOMEN HANDLING RESPONSIBILITIES OF MULTIPLE ROLES TO IMPLEMENT HEALTH-PROMOTING ACTIVITIES.
Contributors: University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Published: 1993
Number of pages: 74
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Business Administration, General.; Women's Studies.
Description: Research has shown that health-promoting activities significantly improve health and increase the quality of life. Studies have been done with large corporations implementing worksite health promotion. The health care system in the U.S. is in the midst of an economic crisis. Increased health of individuals would reduce health care expenditures. Although small businesses are interested in health promotion, current literature revealed no information from the perspective of employees in small businesses. The number of women in the work force and in small businesses continues to increase. The responsibilities of multiple roles of working women influence mental and physical health.

The purpose of this study was to explore what women working in small businesses were doing with regard to health-promoting activities. Grounded theory was the research approach for this study. The exploration revealed a process that was occurring in order for the women subjects to implement health-promoting activities. The focus of the study became the exploration of how women employed in small businesses were handling responsibilities of multiple roles in order to implement health-promoting activities.

Subjects were females 30-54 years of age employed full time in businesses in a southeastern urban community with 50 or fewer employees. The employers of the subjects provided no formal program of health promotion.

The conclusion of the study was that women working in small businesses who used flexible time management to handle responsibilities of multiple roles were implementing health-promoting activities. The proposed theory describes health-promoting activities that women subjects were implementing, explains how the women subjects facing the responsibilities of multiple roles coped in order to implement health-promoting activities, and predicts probable success of implementation of health-promoting activities by the women subjects.

Implications included incorporating health promotion theory into nursing education and the utilization of nurse consultants for the purpose of designing and implementing health promotion programs for women employed in small businesses. Recommendations for future research were suggested.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-09, Section: B, page: 4602.

Thesis (D.S.N.)--UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM, 1993.

School code: 0005.