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Partnership caring: a theory of high blood pressure control in Iranian hypertensives
Author(s) -
Mohammadi Eesa,
Abedi Heidar Ali,
Gofranipour Fazlolah,
Jalali Farzad
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
international journal of nursing practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.62
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1440-172X
pISSN - 1322-7114
DOI - 10.1046/j.1440-172x.2002.00386.x
Subject(s) - general partnership , context (archaeology) , grounded theory , compliance (psychology) , control (management) , medicine , blood pressure , qualitative research , health care , population , nursing , psychology , social psychology , sociology , management , political science , environmental health , social science , paleontology , law , biology , economics
This study uses grounded theory methodology to generate a substantive theory that describes and explains the problem of high blood pressure control among Iranian patients. High blood pressure control is a major world health problem on which many studies have been carried out. Most of these studies have been done by quantitative research methods. The main purpose of this qualitative research was to determine the essential structure of high blood pressure control in an Iranian hypertensive population and to identify a theoretical explanation for this problem. Four interrelated concepts: ‘non‐compliance’, ‘lack of knowledge’, ‘lack of effective caring relationship’, and ‘necessity of partnership’ were identified. Based on these processes, a partnership care theory was developed that provides an appropriate context for the active participation of patients, nurses and physicians in the control of hypertensive disease. This theory can be utilized in the control of hypertension as well as other chronic diseases.