Date of Award
2006
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Jett, Kathleen F.
Abstract
Older Guatemalan women living in farmworking communities represent a vulnerable population enduring extreme poverty, leading to decline of their health. A phenomenological approach was selected as the qualitative research methodology to describe their lived experience of health. Pender's (2002) Health Promotion Model was used as the conceptual framework guiding the inquiry. Nine women, living in South Florida, were interviewed using their secondary language, Spanish. The interviews were tape-recorded, transcribed, and translated into English. A synthesized list of descriptive expressions emerged with seven themes. These were analyzed and a structural definition of the lived experience of health was formulated and compared to the concept of health as described by Pender (1982). Understanding the meaning of health among older Guatemalan women may influence policies, practice processes, and accessibility of health care while expanding nursing's body of knowledge. Specific recommendations to improve older Guatemalan women's access to health care were presented.
Extent
78 p.
Recommended Citation
Ordonez, Maria de los Angeles, "The lived experience of health among older Guatemalan women" (2006). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009. 1171.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_5/1171
Identifier
FADT13340
Comments
Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing|Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2006.|Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing