Self-care ability among home-dwelling older people in rural areas in southern Norway

Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 113-122

  Dale, Bjørg ^a   Söderhamn, Ulrika ^a   Söderhamn, Olle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Mental health; Nutritional status; Perceived health; Self care agency; Sense of coherence

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT LIVING; MALE; NORWAY; SELF CARE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INDEPENDENT LIVING; MALE; NORWAY; RURAL HEALTH; SELF CARE;

EID: 84857044327     PISSN: 02839318     EISSN: 14716712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-6712.2011.00917.x     Document Type: Article

References (67)

1. Burholt V, Naylor D. The relationship between rural community type and attachment to place for older people living in North Wales, UK. Eur J Aging 2005; 2: 109-19.
2. Dale B, Sævareid HI, Kirkevold M, Söderhamn O. Formal and informal care in relation to activities of daily living and self-perceived health among older care-dependent individuals in Norway. Int J Older People Nurs 2008; 3: 194-203.
3. Ryan AA, McCann S, McCenna H. Impact of community care in enabling older people with complex needs to remain at home. Int J Older People Nurs 2009; 4: 22-32.
4. Høy B, Wagner L, Hall EOC. Self-care as a health resource of elders: an integrative review of the concept. Scand J Caring Sci 2007; 21: 456-66.
5. Borg C, Hallberg IR, Blomquist K. Life satisfaction among older people (65+) with reduced self-care capacity: the relationship to social, health and financial aspects. J Clin Nurs 2006; 15: 607-18.
6. Söderhamn O, Lindencrona C, Ek A-C. Ability for self-care among home dwelling elderly people in a health district in Sweden. Int J Nurs Stud 2000; 37: 361-8.
7. Klainin P, Ouannapiruk L. A meta-analysis of self-care behaviour research on elders in Thailand: an update. Nurs Sci Quart 2010; 23: 156-63.
8. Harrison EL, Fisher KL, Lawson JA, Chad KE, Sheppard MS, Reeder BA, Ashworth NL, Bruner BR. Exploring the role of housing type on physical activity and health status in community-dwelling older adults. Activities Adapt Aging 2010; 34: 98-114.
9. Byam-Williams J, Salyer J. Factors influencing the health-related life-style of community-dwelling older adults. Home Healthc Nurse 2010; 28: 115-21.
10. Dale B, Sævareid HI, Kirkevold M, Söderhamn O. Older home nursing patients' perception of social provisions and received care. Scand J Caring Sci 2010; 24: 523-32.
11. Borglin G, Jakobsson U, Edberg A-K, Hallberg IR. Older people in Sweden with various degrees of present quality of life: their health, social support, everyday activities and sense of coherence. Health Soc Care Community 2006; 14: 136-46.
12. Bai Y-L, Chiou C-P, Chang Y-Y. Self-care behaviour and related factors in older people with Type 2 diabetes. J Clin Nurs 2009; 18: 3308-15.
13. Antonovsky A. Unraveling the Mystery of Health, 1st edn. 1987, Jossey-Bass Inc. Publishers, San Francisco.
14. Antonovsky A. The structure and properties of the sense of coherence scale. Soc Sci Med 1993; 36: 725-33.
15. Eriksson M, Lindström B. Antonovsky's sense of coherence scale and the relation with health: a systematic review. J Epidemiol Community Health 2006; 60: 376-81.
16. Lindmark U, Stenström U, Wärnberg Gerdin E, Hugoson A. The distribution of "sense of coherence" among Swedish adults: a quantitative cross-sectional population study. Scand J Public Health 2010; 38: 1-8.
17. Rohani C, Khandjari S, Abedi H-A, Oskouie F, Langius-Eklöf A. Health index, sense of coherence scale, brief religious coping and spiritual perspective scale: psychometric properties. J Adv Nurs 2010; 66: 2796-806.
18. Sævareid HI, Thygesen E, Nygaard HA, Lindström TC. Does sense of coherence affect the relationship between self-rated health and health status in a sample of community-dwelling frail elderly people? Aging Ment Health 2007; 11: 658-67.
19. Söderhamn U, Bachrach-Lindström M, Ek A-C. Self-care ability and sense of coherence in older nutritional at-risk patients. Eur J Clin Nutr 2008; 62: 96-103.
20. Söderhamn O, Ek A-C, Pörn I. The Self-care Ability Scale for the Elderly. Scand J Occup Ther 1996; 3: 69-78.
21. Orem DE Nursing. Concepts of Practice, 6th edn. 2001, Mosby Year Book Inc., St Louis.
22. Söderhamn O. Health and the internal structure of the Self-care Ability Scale for the Elderly. Scand J Occup Ther 2001; 8: 67-71.
23. Söderhamn O, Cliffordson C. The structure of self-care in a group of elderly people. Nurs Sci Quart 2001; 14: 55-58.
24. Pörn I. Health and adaptedness. Theor Med 1993; 14: 295-303.
25. Kaufman AV, Scogin FR, Burgio LD, Morthland MP, Ford BK. Providing mental health services to older people living in rural communities. J Gerontol Soc Work 2007; 48: 349-65.
26. Caffrey MH. The rural community care gerontologic nurse entrepreneur. J Gerontol Nurs 2005; 31: 11-16.
27. Mitchell LA, Strain LA, Blandford AA. Indicators of home care use in urban and rural settings. Can J Ageing 2007; 26: 275-80.
28. SSB (Statistisk sentralbyrå). Statistics in Norway regarding population in county councils and communities (in Norwegian). 2010, November, .
29. Evers GCM. Appraisal of Self-Care Agency. ASA Scale. Dissertation 1989, Van Gorcum, Assen, Maastricht.
30. Lorensen M, Holter IM, Evers GCM, Isenberg MA, Achterberg TV. Cross-cultural testing of the "appraisal of self-care agency: ASA scale" in Norway. Int J Nurs Stud 1993; 30: 15-23.
31. Söderhamn U, Söderhamn O. Developing and testing the Nutritional Form For the Elderly. Int J Nurs Pract 2001; 7: 336-41.
32. Söderhamn U, Söderhamn O. Reliability and validity of the Nutritional Form For the Elderly (NUFFE). J Adv Nurs 2002; 37: 28-34.
33. Söderhamn U, Flateland S, Jessen L, Söderhamn O. Norwegian version of the Nutritional Form For the Elderly: sufficient psychometric properties for performing institutional screening of elderly patients. Nutr Res 2009; 29: 761-7.
34. Goldberg D, Williams P A User's Guide to the General Health Questionnaire. 1988, NFER-NELSON Publishing Company Ltd, Windsor.
35. Söderhamn O, Lindencrona C, Ek A-C. Validity of two self-care instruments for the elderly. Scand J Occup Ther 1996; 3: 172-9.
36. Söderhamn O, Evers G, Hamrin E. A Swedish Version of the Appraisal of Self-Care Agency (ASA) Scale. Scand J Caring Sci 1996; 10: 3-9.
37. Van Achterberg T, Lorensen M, Isenberg MA, Evers GCM, Levin E, Philipsen H. The Norwegian, Danish and Dutch version of the appraisal of self-care agency scale; comparing reliability aspects. Scand J Caring Sci 1991; 5: 101-8.
38. Whittington J, Huppert FA. Creating invariant subscales of the GHQ-30. Soc Sci Med 1998; 46: 1429-40.
39. Dale B, Sævareid HI, Söderhamn O. Testing and using Goldberg's General Health Questionnaire: mental health in relation to home nursing, home help, and family care among older, care-dependent individuals. Int J Ment Health Nurs 2009; 18: 133-43.
40. Altman D. Practical Statistics for Medical Research. 1999, Chapman & Hall/CRC, London.
41. WMA (World Medical Association Declaration of Helsinki). Ethical principles for medical research involving human subjects. 2008, Seoul, .
42. Beauchamp TL, Childress JF. Principles of Biomedical Ethics, 6th edn. 2009, University Press, Inc., Oxford.
43. Callaghan D. Healthy behaviours, self-efficacy, self-care, and basic conditioning factors in older adults. J Community Health Nurs 2005; 22: 169-78.
44. Hirve S, Juvekar S, Lele P, Agarwal D. Social gradients in self-reported health and well-being among adults aged 50 and over in Pune district, India. Glob Health Action 2010; 2: 88-95.
45. Leenerts MH, Teel CS, Pendleton MK. Building a model of self-care for health promotion in aging. J Nurs Schol 2002; 34: 355-61.
46. From I, Johansson I, Athlin E. Experiences of health and well-being, a question of adjustment and compensation - views of older people dependent on community care. Int J Older People Nurs 2007; 2: 278-87.
47. Kim SH. Older people's expectations regarding ageing, health-promoting behaviour and health. J Adv Nurs 2009; 65: 84-91.
48. Kalfoss M, Halvorsrud L. Important issues to quality of life among Norwegian older adults: an exploratory study. Open Nurs J 2009; 3: 45-55.
49. Sharkey JR. Longitudinal examination of homebound older adults who experience heightened food insufficiency: effect of diabetes status and implications for service provision. Gerontologist 2005; 45: 773-82.
50. Byles JE. Fit and well at eighty. Defying the stereotypes of age and illness. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2007; 1114: 107-20.
51. The Norwegian Board of Health. Nursing and Care Services in the Municipalities: service Users, Service Needs and Service Supply. 2003; Report 10/2003.
52. Beswick AD, Gooberman-Hill R, Smith A, Ebrahim S. Maintaining independence in older people. Rev Clin Gerontol 2010; 20: 128-53.
53. Larsson K. According to Needs? Predicting use of Formal and Informal Care in a Swedish Urban Elderly Population. Dissertation 2004, Stockholm University, Studies of Social work, Stockholm.
54. Johansson Y, Bachrach-Lindström M, Ek A-C. Malnutrition in a home-living older population: prevalence, incidence and risk factors. A prospective study. J Clin Nurs 2009; 18: 1354-64.
55. Söderhamn U, Christensson L, Idvall E, Johansson A-K, Bachrach-Lindström M Factors associated with nutritional risk in 75-year old community living people. Int J Older People Nurs 2010, Published online, Doi: .
56. Söderhamn U, Bachrach-Lindström M, Ek A-C. Nutritional screening and perceived health in a group of geriatric rehabilitation patients. J Clin Nurs 2007; 16: 1997-2006.
57. Cereda E, Valzolgher L, Pedrolli C. Mini nutritional assessment is a good predictor of functional status in institutionalized elderly at risk of malnutrition. Clin Nutr 2008; 27: 700-5.
58. Grieger JA, Nowson CA, Ackland LM. Nutritional and functional status indicators in residents of a long-term care facility. J Nutr Elder 2009; 28: 47-60.
59. Clarke J. Adverse factors and the mental health of older people: implications for social policy and professional practice. J Psychiatr Ment Health 2005; 12: 290-6.
60. Reed MJ. Mental health. In Gerontological Nursing (Meiner SE, Lueckenotte AG, eds), 2006, Mosby Elsevier, St. Louis, Missouri, 281-303.
61. Riedel-Heller SG, Busse A, Angemeyer MC. The state of mental health in old age across the "old" European Union - a systematic review. Acta Psychiatr Scand 2006; 113: 388-401.
62. Nygren B, Aléx L, Jonsén E, Gustafson Y, Norberg A, Lundman B. Resilience, sense of coherence, purpose in life and self-transcendence in relation to perceived physical and mental health among the oldest old. Aging Ment Health 2005; 9: 354-62.
63. Eriksson M, Lindström B. Antonovsky's sense of coherence scale and its relation with quality of life: a systematic review. J Epidemiol Community Health 2007; 61: 938-44.
64. Freudenstein U, Arthur AJ, Matthews RJ, Jagger C. Community surveys of late-life depression: who are the non-responders? Age Ageing 2001; 3: 517-21.
65. Buckwalter KC. Recruitment of older adults. Res Gerontol Nurs 2009; 2: 265-6.
66. Jacelon C. Older adults' participation in research. Nurse Res 2007; 14: 64-73.
67. Hultsch DF, MacDonald SWS, Hunter MA, Maitland SB, Dixon RA. Sampling and generalisability in developmental research: comparison of random and convenience samples of older adults. Int J Behav Dev 2002; 26: 345-59.