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20207956

Source:http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/id/20207956

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-6-15
pubmed:abstractText
The menopausal transition is a marker of aging for women and a time when health professionals urge women to prevent disease. In this research we adopted a constructivist, inductive approach in exploring how and why midlife women think about health in general, about being healthy, and about factors that influence engaging in healthy behaviors. The sample constituted 23 women who had participated in a women's wellness program intervention trial and subsequent interviews. The women described lives of healthy eating and exercise, yet, their perceptions of health and healthy behavior at midlife contradicted that history. Midlife was associated with risk and guilt at not doing enough to be healthy. Health professionals provided a very limited frame within which to judge what is healthy. Mostly this was left up to individual women. Those who were successful framed health as "being able to do what you want to do when you want to do it." In this article we present study findings of how meanings attached to health and being healthy were constructed through social expectations, family relationships, and life experiences.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
T
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
1049-7323
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
20
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
966-76
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-10-29
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
The shaping of midlife women's views of health and health behaviors.
pubmed:affiliation
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA. smithdijulio@comcast.net
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural