title: Conceptualizations of self-care: toward health-oriented models.
abstract: Several conceptual orientations have been proposed for understanding self-care, but their impact on the self-care research literature has been limited. Empirical work about self-care reflects several perspectives of health: clinical, role performance, adaptive and eudaemonistic. These perspectives of health have shaped the research methods and our knowledge about self-care. Linking self-care explicitly to a perspective of health can help delineate more clearly the nature of self-care, its consequences, and areas deserving further study.
authors.affiliation: Department of Parent and Child Nursing, University of Washington, Seattle.
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authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Woods
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D006262:Health; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009742:Nursing Theory; D012380:Role; D012648:Self Care / Q000523:psychology*