Giving and receiving: an empirically derived theory on health visiting practice

The aim of this study was to uncover how experienced health visitors conceptualize and evaluate their health visiting work The grounded theory approach to data collection and analysis was used to develop a beginning midrange substantive theory about health visiting practice The beginning theory prov...

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Published in:Journal of advanced nursing 1992-11, Vol.17 (11), p.1317-1325
Main Author: Chalmers, Karen I
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Attitude to Health
Biological and medical sciences
Community Health Nursing
Consumer Behavior
Data Collection
Dependency (Psychology)
General populations
Health Promotion
Health Services Needs and Demand
Health visiting
Humans
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Nurse-Patient Relations
Nurses - psychology
Nursing
Nursing Evaluation Research
Nursing Theory
Prevention and actions
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Theories
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Summary:The aim of this study was to uncover how experienced health visitors conceptualize and evaluate their health visiting work The grounded theory approach to data collection and analysis was used to develop a beginning midrange substantive theory about health visiting practice The beginning theory provides an explanation and understanding of how health visitors work with clients in the community during their day‐to‐day visiting practice Data were gathered from 45 experienced health visitors from 13 health authorities in the north‐west of England by means of the conversational interview The basic psychosocial problem uncovered in the data was health visitors’ need to provide a service and clients’ need to fulfil personal needs and goals The unifying theme of giving and receiving integrated the major categories into the key analytic framework in this study This key psychosocial process was the pattern of interaction between health visitors and clients, in which both parties control the interactions by regulating what they offer and accept from each other Each party both selectively ‘gives’ and ‘receives’ in order to manage the health visitor‐client encounters What gets offered and how the offer is received and acted on is a complex process involving many factors related to the health visitor, the client, and the context in which the interaction takes place
ISSN:0309-2402
1365-2648
DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2648.1992.tb01854.x