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Culture |
Is all the socially learned behaviors, values, beliefs, customs, and ways of thinking of a population that guide its members’ views of themselves and the world. |
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Culturally competent |
Being sensitive to issues related to culture, race, gender, sexual orientation, social class, economic situation, and other factors |
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Environmental control |
Refers to a client’s ability to control the surroundings or direct factors in the environment (Giger & Haddad, 2021) Those who believe that illness is a result of nature or natural causes are less likely to seek traditional health care because they do not believe it can help them. |
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Ethnicity |
Concept of people identifying with one another based on a shared heritage. All of which affects a person’s role and therefore their health and illness behavior. |
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Hardiness |
Is the ability to resist illness when under stress. First described by Kobasa (1978) 3 components to hardiness 1.Commitment: active involvement in life activities 2.Control: ability to make appropriate decisions in life activities 3.Challenge: ability to perceive change as beneficial rather than just stressful |
Hardiness has been found to have a moderating or buffering effect on people experiencing stress. High stress low occurrence of illness = scored high on hardiness |
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Health literacy |
Is the person’s ability to find, understand, and use information and services to make informed health-related decisions. CDC The issues identified need to be addressed through public policy and funding, community participation, and rebuilding neighborhoods if long-term change and progress is going to occur. |
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Resilience |
Is defined as having healthy responses to stressful circumstances or risky situations. This concept helps explain why one person reacts to a slightly stressful event with severe anxiety, while another person does not experience distress even when confronting a major disruption. |
Hoopsick (2021) found that high resilience was significant in moderating anger, anxiety, depression and PTSD. |
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Resourcefulness |
Involves using problem-solving abilities and believing that one can cope with adverse or novel situations. People develop this through interactions with others - through successfully coping with life experiences. |
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Self-efficacy |
Is a belief that personal abilities and efforts affect the events in one’s life. A person who believes that their behavior makes a difference is more likely to take action. People with high self-efficacy set personal goals, are self motivated, cope effectively with stress and request support from others when needed. The opposite is true of low self-efficacy |
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Sense of belonging |
Is the feeling of connectedness with or involvement in a social system or environment of which a person feels an integral part. Abraham Maslow described a sense of belonging as a basic human psychosocial need that involves feelings of both value and fit. A sense of belonging can promote health, whereas lack of this sense can impair health. |
Value refers to feeling needed and accepted. Fit refers to feeling that one meshes or fits in with the system or environment. |
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Social determinants of health |
Nonmedical factors that influence health, such as sense of community, access to adequate resources, intolerance of violence, support of diversity among people, mastery of the environment, education, employment, income and social protection, and food security. |
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Social networks |
Are groups of people one knows and with whom one feels connected. Studies have found that having a social network can help reduce stress, diminish illness, and positively influence the ability to cope and adapt for both clients and their caregivers |
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Social support |
Is the emotional sustenance that comes from friends, family members, and even health care providers who help a person when a problem arises. |
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Social organization |
Refers to family structure and organization, religious values and beliefs, ethnicity, and culture. All affect a person’s role and therefore their health and illness behavior. |
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Spirituality |
Involves the essence of a person’s being and their beliefs about the meaning of life and the purpose of living. It may include belief in god or higher power, the practice of religion, cultural beliefs and practices, and a relationship with the environment. |
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Time orientation |
Whether or not one views time as precise or approximate; differs among cultures. Some cultures may not perceive the importance of adhering to specific follow-up appointments or procedures or time-related treatment regiments. Nurses should not label such clients as non compliant when their behavior may be related to different cultural orientation to the meaning of time. |
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Naturalist view |
Is rooted in a belief that natural conditions or forces such as cold, heat, wind or dampness are responsible for the illness (giger &haddad 2021) |
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Unnatural belief |
Attribute illness to the active, purposeful intervention of an outside agent, spirit or supernatural force or deity |
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Biomedical view |
Promotes the belief that cause-and-effect exists for all phenomena and that responses can be controlled by genetic chemical, or other external means. Promotes the idea of health as merely the absence of disease, which is limiting (andrews 2020) |
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6 cultural factors used for assessing clients |
Communication Physical distance or space Social organization Time orientation Environmental control Biological variations Giger & Haddad 2021 |
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Cultural humility |
The lifelong process of being inquisitive and open to others |
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Interpersonal factors |
1.sense of belonging (Maslow) which involves both fit and value 2.social networks 3.social support 4.family support |
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