:: Volume 6, Issue 21 (Summer 2011) ::
IJNR 2011, 6(21): 68-78 Back to browse issues page
Experiences of stress in rescued women from suicide
POORAN Heidari * , Tahmoneh Farajkhoda , Zohreh Khavari , Mahshid Bokaie , Nayereh Naseri
yazd faculty of nursing , heidaripooran@yahoo.com
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Introduction: Long term or excessive stress is harmful for human life. It causes behavior and emotional changes. It plays a main role in people suicide. Women not only are vulnerable in society but also face more stresses. Recognizing the nature of these experiences is necessary to find health and safety needs, also prevention of suicide effects. Experiences of stress in rescued from suicide and the nurses play a basic role to support the women to maintenance and promote their health. The study aimed to explore experiences of stress in rescued women from suicide. Methods: This is a qualitative study with a phenomenological approach. Information resources include women saved from suicide who were confined to bed in hospitals of Isfahan Medical Sciences University. Purposive Sampling had been continued to saturate information. Finally 10 people had participated in this study. Data was collected by using in-depth interviewing and was analyzed by “Colaizy” method. We tried to analyze qualitative data based on valid criteria. Results: The findings of this research were summarized into four core concepts: life in stress that created from two cluster of internal and external stress, confront against stress have two clusters that included of adaptation and in adaptation behavior. Conclusion: Findings of this study showed that participants by using effective adaptation behaviors in critical conditions or confront against tremendous stresses (specially, resorting to spirituality's experiences) had lower injuries than the others. In stressful life condition, we should not only decrease stresses but also increase adaptation skills such as spirituality's belief. Learning suitable adaptation methods and preventing suicide, needs wide and comprehensive programming in social, family and economical fields.
Keywords: Stress, women, rescued from suicide, phenomenology
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Type of Study: Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing | Subject: nursing
Received: 2011/08/2 | Published: 2011/07/15


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