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Gender And Self-Care In Undergraduate University Students: A Qualitative Study, Anne Johnston Munroe
Gender And Self-Care In Undergraduate University Students: A Qualitative Study, Anne Johnston Munroe
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Although there has been more interest in home health care, self-care, or "lay" initiatives in health care in recent years, most research is from the perspective of the researcher. The researcher names and defines the important issues and also generally makes use of structured questionnaires that force responses into predetermined categories. My research project was a departure from this approach. Grounded in the interpretive paradigm, this research sought to better understand the ways in which men and women experience their physical and mental health and the methods they employ to augment or maintain their health. Another purpose of the research …