Abstract
PURPOSE
Identifying functional health patterns and nursing diagnoses of migrant agricultural laborer families.
METHODS
Interpretative—qualitative study based on interviews with 162 mothers of 0- to 2-year-old children in two Turkish provinces.
FINDINGS
Health perception-health management: growth and development, risk for being delayed; health maintenance, ineffective; health behavior, risk-prone; risk for contamination; risk for sudden infant death syndrome; and risk for injury. Nutritional-metabolic: Risk for infection; and breastfeeding, interrupted. Self-perception: risk for chronic low self-esteem, disturbed self-esteem; and powerlessness. Role-relationship: impaired parenting; and dysfunctional family process. Coping-stress tolerance: coping, disabled family; violence, risk for other-directed. Cognitive-perceptive: knowledge deficit
CONCLUSIONS
Nursing diagnoses of this population were reported for the first time.
IMPLICATIONS
Addressing agricultural laborer families’ diagnoses will positively affect maternal—child health.
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