KMID : 0606420210270040348
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Korean Journal of Women Health Nursing 2021 Volume.27 No. 4 p.348 ~ p.357
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Health promoting behaviors in low-income overweight and obese women in Korea: an exploratory qualitative study
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Nho Ju-Hee
Kim Eun-Jin
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Abstract
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Purpose: This study aimed to explore and understand the health promoting behaviors of low-income overweight and obese women in Korea.
Methods: Data were collected from 10 low-income overweight and obese women working at a community self-sufficiency center through semi-structured in-depth interviews. Individual interviews were conducted and transcribed. Deductive content analysis was done, using the MAXQDA program (VERBI GmbH).
Results: The health promoting behaviors practiced by low-income overweight and obese women were affected by intrapersonal, interpersonal, and organizational/community factors. Six categories were identified and two category clusters were derived that could best describe their health promoting experiences. As main category clusters, despite ¡°feeling that the body and mind are not healthy¡± participants noted ¡°difficulty maintaining a healthy lifestyle.¡± Overall, the participants had poor nutritional status, lacked physical activity, experienced much stress in intrapersonal level, and faced intrapersonal-level barriers to health promoting behaviors. Moreover, participants had a lack of personal will, and lack of specific information to practice health promoting behaviors, a lack of time, and too many overall burdens to earn a living for their family while trying to maintain health promotion behaviors.
Conclusion: Lifestyle interventions for nutrition management, encouragement of physical activity, and stress management are needed for overweight and obese low-income women. In addition, social support and policies are needed to improve their living environment.
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KEYWORD
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Income, Life style, Obesity, Qualitative research, Republic of Korea, Women
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