Phyllis Noerager Stern
Biographic Data
| ID | 163603 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Phyllis Noerager Stern |
| GIVEN NAMES | Phyllis Noerager |
| FAMILY NAME | Stern |
| SIGNATURE | STERN P N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Jeanne Quint Benoliel, 1920-2012
The Health of Women and Girls Determines the Health and Well-Being of Our Modern World: A White Paper From the International Council on Women's Health Issues
The International Council on Women's Health Issues (ICOWHI) is an international nonprofit association dedicated to the goal of promoting health, health care, and well-being of women and girls throughout the world through participation, empowerment, advocacy, education, and research. We are a multidisciplinary network of women's health providers, planners, and advocates from all over the globe. We constitute an international professional and lay n…
Waiting for the Right Time: How and Why Young Thai Women Manage to Avoid Heterosexual Intercourse
Nineteen young Thai women were purposively selected from networks of nongovernmental organizations involving children and youths in Bangkok. Our grounded theory findings indicated that these young women used the basic social process they called "waiting for the right time" in order to maintain heterosexual abstinence. Waiting for the right time involved one overarching condition, honoring parental love, and included three overlapping properties: …
Changing Women: Mothers and Their Adolescent Daughters
Budding fecundity in the female child is a matter of family concern. The authors used the grounded theory method to explore the process of communication between mothers and their adolescent daughters concerning sexuality issues within the context of the age changes of both. A core category of changing women was identified along with three maternal and three daughter processes. Changes that occur during this time period can lead to lasting separat…
A Celebration of Life
The Old is Newer Than Ever: Showcasing Opportunities
Demands Out of Context: Tanzanian Women Combining Exclusive Breastfeeding With Employment
This research, conducted in Tanzania, involved 6 women and their experiences as they combined exclusive breastfeeding with work outside their home. Additional data were collected at a conference in Tanzania and from women in North America. We found that while public health officials did a spectacular job of convincing the women of the advantages of exclusive breastfeeding in terms of their babies' health and their own, they then left the women to…
Out of Sync: A Generation of First-Time Mothers Over 30
Increasing numbers of women have delayed childbearing until after they reach their thirties. The researchers who studied early maternal role attainment in women over 30 failed to reflect on the challenges of raising a child to adulthood. The use of grounded theory helped us understand the extended mothering experience from the perspective of women over 30. Fifty-three women from Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, California, Connecticut, and Florida co…
Founding and Processes of the International Council on Women’s Health Issues: Attentive Partnering. The First 19 Years
I present a theoretical analysis and global influence of the first 19 years of the International Council on Women's Health Issues (ICOWHI). To do so, I analyzed observational, documented, and casual data using the constant comparative method of classical grounded theory. All data bits were analyzed with one another, coded, categorized, and reexamined until I discovered a central category that seemed to explain most of the social scene under study…
Founding and Processes of the International Council on Women's Health Issues: Attentive Partnering. The First 19 Years
News From the International Council on Women's Health Issues
Awakening as a Change Process among Women at Risk for HIV Who Engage in Survival Sex
Women who exchange sex for survival requirements risk exposure to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This grounded theory study was conducted to better understand these women's concerns, attitudes, and behaviors related to HIV, with the goal of informing prevention research. Interviews with 11 women engaged in survival sex were analyzed. Women described sliding into survival sex as a result of economic crises. Survival sex exposed women to v…
Conceptualizing Women's Health: Discovering the Dimensions
Once neatly compartmentalized to variables surrounding reproduction, women's health research has been broadened to include life-span dimensions such as caretaking, chronic illness, the impact of relationships, career opportunities, social status, cultural beliefs about health, and sexual orientation. In conceptualizing the complex interrelationships of women, their beliefs, their status, and the symbolic meaning of their health to their nexus and…
News of the international council on women's health issues
Going to Botswana
Method slurring: The grounded theory/phenomenology example
Increasingly, qualitative research methods are being embraced by nurse researchers because these approaches allow exploration of human experience Failure to explicate qualitative methodologies is resulting in a body of nursing research that is either mislabelled or is classified broadly as qualitative and subject to charges that qualitative research lacks rigour In this paper, the authors discuss the importance of specificity in methodology and d…
Empowerment in Primary Health Care: The Challenge for Nurses
The experience of families of children with persistent middle ear problems supports the notion that when families become empowered, they manage their own health more effectively. Findings from the present study indicate that families engage in predictable processes of acquiescing, helpless floundering, and becoming experts in their efforts at learning to manage the course of their child's disease symptoms within the context of an often cavalier h…
Teaching transcultural nursing in Louisiana from the ground up: Strategies for heightening student awareness
Because of a dearth of material in the literature regarding the process of teaching transcultural nursing, it was necessary to do an analysis of processes, or feasibility study while at the same time engaging in the process of teaching transcultural nursing. Findings from this analysis indicate that a number of strategies can be used to help nurses integrate culturally sensitive material, but that the most important of these may be experiential l…
Culturally induced stress during childbearing: The Pilipino‐American experience
Pregnancy and childbearing have been rated as two of the most stressful events in any woman's life. In a group of Pilipino immigrants, additional stress was found to exist when their cultural values regarding self‐care during pregnancy differed from those of their western health care givers. A sensitive attitude of the nurse toward custom approach and language was found to reduce stress felt by the childbearing Pilipino immigrant
Culture shock and the working woman: Surviving west coast to northern Louisiana relocation
Women in highly specialized professions often find relocation, with its concomitant culture shock, a necessity for maximum career advancement. An insider's view of culture shock derived from participant observation data suggests that sociocultural and mechanical differences may be overcome through personal qualities of egregiousness, a portable support system, and a penchant for self‐actualization. Social interactional factors aiding the transiti…
Using grounded theory methodology to study women's culturally based decisions about health
A study of a culture implies a comparison with other cultures. The constant comparative processes that guide grounded theory methodology are ideal for defining cultural concepts generated through examination of the data
Women's health and the self‐care paradox. A model to guide self‐care readiness
Based on the teaching of their culture, women have reasons for their health practices. Nurses, in turn, based on the teaching of their culture of origin, with superimposed professional "scientific"; culture beliefs, have reasons for the health behaviors they think their clients should practice. We call these beliefs cultural reasoning. When they clash, culture shock occurs, possibly leading to power struggles, fencing, and withdrawal from care, o…
The ethno‐market theory: Factors influencing childbearing health practices of northern Louisiana black women
Black women in northern Louisiana either follow the folk beliefs taught to them by elder, follow the prescriptions of the dominant health culture, or balance the advice of these two groups. We discovered that their decisions about which health system they will use are influenced by three factors: the respect‐fear process that includes the respect shown them by the professional as opposed to the fear they have of breaking traditional taboos; testi…
Conclusion
Women's health and the self‐care paradox: Case study and analysis
A case study analysis is used to demonstrate the theory of the self‐care paradox. This case involves a client who is also a health care professional and her experience with a high risk pregnancy. The professional caregivers and the client differed in their perception of the appropriate self‐care agency when the pregnancy became problematic. The key components of the paradox are highlighted as the actors progress through interpersonal and intrapro…
Empowerment in Primary Health Care: The Challenge for Nurses
The experience of families of children with persistent middle ear problems supports the notion that when families become empowered, they manage their own health more effectively. Findings from the present study indicate that families engage in predictable processes of acquiescing, helpless floundering, and becoming experts in their efforts at learning to manage the course of their child's disease symptoms within the context of an often cavalier h…
Awakening as a Change Process among Women at Risk for HIV Who Engage in Survival Sex
Women who exchange sex for survival requirements risk exposure to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This grounded theory study was conducted to better understand these women's concerns, attitudes, and behaviors related to HIV, with the goal of informing prevention research. Interviews with 11 women engaged in survival sex were analyzed. Women described sliding into survival sex as a result of economic crises. Survival sex exposed women to v…
Grounded Theory Methodology: Its Uses and Processes
Qualitative research: The nurse as grounded theorist
This paper details the Glaser and Strauss Grounded Theory approach to research, the history behind its discovery, a description of the method, and some important ways in which nurses and other investigators have used it. Short descriptions of Mead's symbolic interactionism and the computer methodology of factor analysis are included
Teaching transcultural nursing in Louisiana from the ground up: Strategies for heightening student awareness
Because of a dearth of material in the literature regarding the process of teaching transcultural nursing, it was necessary to do an analysis of processes, or feasibility study while at the same time engaging in the process of teaching transcultural nursing. Findings from this analysis indicate that a number of strategies can be used to help nurses integrate culturally sensitive material, but that the most important of these may be experiential l…
Culturally induced stress during childbearing: The Pilipino‐American experience
Pregnancy and childbearing have been rated as two of the most stressful events in any woman's life. In a group of Pilipino immigrants, additional stress was found to exist when their cultural values regarding self‐care during pregnancy differed from those of their western health care givers. A sensitive attitude of the nurse toward custom approach and language was found to reduce stress felt by the childbearing Pilipino immigrant
Culture shock and the working woman: Surviving west coast to northern Louisiana relocation
Women in highly specialized professions often find relocation, with its concomitant culture shock, a necessity for maximum career advancement. An insider's view of culture shock derived from participant observation data suggests that sociocultural and mechanical differences may be overcome through personal qualities of egregiousness, a portable support system, and a penchant for self‐actualization. Social interactional factors aiding the transiti…
Using grounded theory methodology to study women's culturally based decisions about health
A study of a culture implies a comparison with other cultures. The constant comparative processes that guide grounded theory methodology are ideal for defining cultural concepts generated through examination of the data
Women's health and the self‐care paradox. A model to guide self‐care readiness
Based on the teaching of their culture, women have reasons for their health practices. Nurses, in turn, based on the teaching of their culture of origin, with superimposed professional "scientific"; culture beliefs, have reasons for the health behaviors they think their clients should practice. We call these beliefs cultural reasoning. When they clash, culture shock occurs, possibly leading to power struggles, fencing, and withdrawal from care, o…
The ethno‐market theory: Factors influencing childbearing health practices of northern Louisiana black women
Black women in northern Louisiana either follow the folk beliefs taught to them by elder, follow the prescriptions of the dominant health culture, or balance the advice of these two groups. We discovered that their decisions about which health system they will use are influenced by three factors: the respect‐fear process that includes the respect shown them by the professional as opposed to the fear they have of breaking traditional taboos; testi…
Conclusion
Women's health and the self‐care paradox: Case study and analysis
A case study analysis is used to demonstrate the theory of the self‐care paradox. This case involves a client who is also a health care professional and her experience with a high risk pregnancy. The professional caregivers and the client differed in their perception of the appropriate self‐care agency when the pregnancy became problematic. The key components of the paradox are highlighted as the actors progress through interpersonal and intrapro…
Empowerment in Primary Health Care: The Challenge for Nurses
The experience of families of children with persistent middle ear problems supports the notion that when families become empowered, they manage their own health more effectively. Findings from the present study indicate that families engage in predictable processes of acquiescing, helpless floundering, and becoming experts in their efforts at learning to manage the course of their child's disease symptoms within the context of an often cavalier h…
Method slurring: The grounded theory/phenomenology example
Increasingly, qualitative research methods are being embraced by nurse researchers because these approaches allow exploration of human experience Failure to explicate qualitative methodologies is resulting in a body of nursing research that is either mislabelled or is classified broadly as qualitative and subject to charges that qualitative research lacks rigour In this paper, the authors discuss the importance of specificity in methodology and d…
Going to Botswana
Conceptualizing Women's Health: Discovering the Dimensions
Once neatly compartmentalized to variables surrounding reproduction, women's health research has been broadened to include life-span dimensions such as caretaking, chronic illness, the impact of relationships, career opportunities, social status, cultural beliefs about health, and sexual orientation. In conceptualizing the complex interrelationships of women, their beliefs, their status, and the symbolic meaning of their health to their nexus and…
News of the international council on women's health issues
Awakening as a Change Process among Women at Risk for HIV Who Engage in Survival Sex
Women who exchange sex for survival requirements risk exposure to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This grounded theory study was conducted to better understand these women's concerns, attitudes, and behaviors related to HIV, with the goal of informing prevention research. Interviews with 11 women engaged in survival sex were analyzed. Women described sliding into survival sex as a result of economic crises. Survival sex exposed women to v…
News From the International Council on Women's Health Issues
Out of Sync: A Generation of First-Time Mothers Over 30
Increasing numbers of women have delayed childbearing until after they reach their thirties. The researchers who studied early maternal role attainment in women over 30 failed to reflect on the challenges of raising a child to adulthood. The use of grounded theory helped us understand the extended mothering experience from the perspective of women over 30. Fifty-three women from Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, California, Connecticut, and Florida co…
Founding and Processes of the International Council on Women’s Health Issues: Attentive Partnering. The First 19 Years
I present a theoretical analysis and global influence of the first 19 years of the International Council on Women's Health Issues (ICOWHI). To do so, I analyzed observational, documented, and casual data using the constant comparative method of classical grounded theory. All data bits were analyzed with one another, coded, categorized, and reexamined until I discovered a central category that seemed to explain most of the social scene under study…
Founding and Processes of the International Council on Women's Health Issues: Attentive Partnering. The First 19 Years
Demands Out of Context: Tanzanian Women Combining Exclusive Breastfeeding With Employment
This research, conducted in Tanzania, involved 6 women and their experiences as they combined exclusive breastfeeding with work outside their home. Additional data were collected at a conference in Tanzania and from women in North America. We found that while public health officials did a spectacular job of convincing the women of the advantages of exclusive breastfeeding in terms of their babies' health and their own, they then left the women to…
The Old is Newer Than Ever: Showcasing Opportunities
A Celebration of Life
Changing Women: Mothers and Their Adolescent Daughters
Budding fecundity in the female child is a matter of family concern. The authors used the grounded theory method to explore the process of communication between mothers and their adolescent daughters concerning sexuality issues within the context of the age changes of both. A core category of changing women was identified along with three maternal and three daughter processes. Changes that occur during this time period can lead to lasting separat…
Waiting for the Right Time: How and Why Young Thai Women Manage to Avoid Heterosexual Intercourse
Nineteen young Thai women were purposively selected from networks of nongovernmental organizations involving children and youths in Bangkok. Our grounded theory findings indicated that these young women used the basic social process they called "waiting for the right time" in order to maintain heterosexual abstinence. Waiting for the right time involved one overarching condition, honoring parental love, and included three overlapping properties: …
Psychology (22 works) · Medicine (18 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Qualitative research (10 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Grounded theory (8 works) · Nursing (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works)