Where health meets illness
Subtitle: health-promoting behaviours for women with fibromyalgia.
Published: 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
Description: In-depth, semi-structured interviews with six women with Fibromyalgia (FM) explored their health and health-promoting behaviours in the context of their illness experience. The purposes of this qualitative study were: (1) to further understand the subjective experience of women with FM with respect to their participation in health-promoting behaviours; and (2) to examine how health is conceptualized, perceived, and made meaningful by women with FM. Grounded theory analysis allowed themes and categories to emerge from the data and to identify the core process of the women's illness experience. Analysis of the data continued simultaneously to model development, which further emphasized the relationship between emergent concepts, illustrating how the women's experience with FM was defined by "Trying to Regain One's Normal Life." Implications of the research findings were addressed with respect to perspectives of health and illness as well as consideration for future program and research initiatives.
Notes: Adviser: Lynda Mainwaring.

Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Toronto, 2004.

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Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 42-06, page: 2192.

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