Self-care and well-being model for elderly women: a comparison of rural and urban areas.
The purposes of this study were to examine the relationships among age, social class, perceived health, self-care, and well-being in urban and rural elderly women and to validate and compare two models using these two groups. A causal model of self-care and well-being was proposed for this study based on Orem's self-care model and empirical data. Data were collected using a survey-interview method. Of the 351 elderly women recruited, 159 were in the urban group and 192 in the rural group. Two models of self-care and well-being were tested using path analysis with the LISREL 8 program. The resultant models yielded a Chi-squared of 1.98 with two degrees of freedom (p = 0.37) in the urban group and a Chi-squared of 4.20 with three degrees of freedom (p = 0.24) in the rural group, indicating good fit between the data and the two models. These two models provide guidelines for community nurses to design appropriate self-care programs for elderly women.
Wang
Hsiu-Hung
HH
College of Nursing, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. hhwang@kmu.edu.tw
Shieh
Carol
C
Wang
Ruey-Hsia
RH
D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D016294:Models, Nursing; D012424:Rural Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012648:Self Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013624:Taiwan; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data