A qualitative analysis of personal health care challenges experienced by Iranian divorcees

Golboni, F, Alimoradi, Z, Fridlund, B, Årestedt, L, Griffiths, MD ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8880-6524, Broström, A and Pakpour, AH, 2022. A qualitative analysis of personal health care challenges experienced by Iranian divorcees. The Qualitative Report, 27 (12), pp. 2783-2800. ISSN 2160-3715

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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 individual-centered 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, person-centered 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.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	The Qualitative Report
Creators:	Golboni, F., Alimoradi, Z., Fridlund, B., Årestedt, L., Griffiths, M.D., Broström, A. and Pakpour, A.H.
Publisher:	Nova Southeastern University
Date:	December 2022
Volume:	27
Number:	12
ISSN:	2160-3715
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.46743/2160-3715/2022.5152 DOI 1626975 Other
Rights:	Copyright 2022: Farzaneh Golboni, Zainab Alimoradi, Bengt Fridlund, Liselott Årestedt, Mark D. Griffiths, Anders Broström, Amir H. Pakpour, and Nova Southeastern University. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Laura Ward
Date Added:	12 Dec 2022 11:08
Last Modified:	12 Dec 2022 11:08
Related URLs:	Publisher
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/47623

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