Eileen J Porter
Biographic Data
| ID | 77569 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eileen J Porter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eileen J |
| FAMILY NAME | Porter |
| SIGNATURE | PORTER E J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Older Homebound Women: Negotiating Reliance on a Cane or Walker
Canes and walkers are commonly characterized as assistive devices that serve the same purpose: as walking aides. These general views were reappraised and tempered in this descriptive phenomenological study with 40 older women (aged 85 to 98 years) who were unable to leave their homes without help. The purpose was to describe the phenomena of negotiating reliance on canes and walkers as walking devices and the lifeworld context underlying each phe…
Helping Young Adult Children With Traumatic Brain Injury: The Life-World of Mothers
Few scholars have described the personal-social context of the maternal experience of helping young adult children who have survived a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Viewing context as life-world, we used a descriptive phenomenological method to explore the life-world of 7 mothers whose young adult children had suffered a moderate or severe TBI at least 6 months earlier. Conducting three interviews with each mother, we discerned five features of l…
Recognizing my risk” and “Envisioning an intrusion event: A Phenomenological Approach to Perceived Risk of Intrusion
“Figuring Out Whether They Can Be Trusted”: Older Widows' Intentions Relative to Hired Non-Professional Home-Care Helpers
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to describe the experience of older women relative to trusting hired non-professional home-care helpers. Open-ended interviews were done about the home-care experience with 25 women over three years, and 14 women (age 80-93) shared data about hiring and trusting helpers. The women perceived risks to personal safety that adversely influenced willingness to seek new helpers. After hiring a helper, the …
Moments of Apprehension in the Midst of a Certainty: Some Frail Older Widows' Lives with a Personal Emergency Response System
The author's aim is to describe older frail widows' experience of having a personal emergency response system (PERS). Over 3 years, she interviewed 8 frail widows during a study of the home care experience using a phenomenological method to describe the context and the phenomena of the experience. “Being certain that I can get help here quickly” was a context for the phenomena of “deciding whom to put on my list (of first responders)” and “keepin…
Targeting Intermediaries to Recruit Older Women for Qualitative, Longitudinal Research
Crafting a comprehensive recruitment plan for qualitative, longitudinal research requires consideration of many issues, particularly when a culturally diverse sample of older women is to be recruited for interviews conducted in their homes. The development of a detailed recruitment plan for a phenomenological investigation of older widows' experience of home care is described. The plan's two inter-related foci (targeted intermediaries and sequent…
The Church Family and Kin: An Older Rural Black Woman's Support Network and Preferences for Care Providers
Although kin and church are considered premier support sources for rural elders, few scholars have undertaken descriptive studies to explore the nature of rural Black elders' support networks and their preferences for in-home service providers. In the case study described in this article, methods of support network analysis and descriptive phenomenology were used to analyze data from five lengthy, open-ended interviews with a 94-year-old rural Bl…
Setting Aside the Identity Furor: Staying Her Story-Course of Same-ness
In qualitative research, considerable emphasis has been placed on the representation of identity, but this discussion has occurred largely within the context of the Self-Other dichotomy. Here, an alternative perspective on identity is presented. It is emphasized that exploring a participant's "same-ness" is a critically important aperture to human experience that may be neglected in the furor over whose voice is being presented in text. In this a…
“Staying Close to Shore”: A Context for Older Rural Widows' Use of Health Care
Access to health care has been considered central to understanding older rural adults' utilization of health services. Access has been measured in terms of distance to care, use of care, and barriers to care; because older persons' relevant perceptions have received little attention, the validity of the typical access constructs is questionable. During a phenomenological study of their experiences of living alone at home, eight older rural widows…
Maternal and Child Health: Programs, Problems, and Policy in Public Health
The Assistant Professor, Co-coordinator, PhD Program, Sinclair School of Nursing, University of Missouri—Columbia, Columbia, Missouri
Managing Health Promotion Programs: Leadership Skills for the 21st Century
The Assistant Professor, Co-coordinator, PhD Program, Sinclair School of Nursing, University of Missouri—Columbia, Columbia, Missouri
Setting Aside the Identity Furor: Staying Her Story-Course of Same-ness
In qualitative research, considerable emphasis has been placed on the representation of identity, but this discussion has occurred largely within the context of the Self-Other dichotomy. Here, an alternative perspective on identity is presented. It is emphasized that exploring a participant's "same-ness" is a critically important aperture to human experience that may be neglected in the furor over whose voice is being presented in text. In this a…
The Church Family and Kin: An Older Rural Black Woman's Support Network and Preferences for Care Providers
Although kin and church are considered premier support sources for rural elders, few scholars have undertaken descriptive studies to explore the nature of rural Black elders' support networks and their preferences for in-home service providers. In the case study described in this article, methods of support network analysis and descriptive phenomenology were used to analyze data from five lengthy, open-ended interviews with a 94-year-old rural Bl…
Older Homebound Women: Negotiating Reliance on a Cane or Walker
Canes and walkers are commonly characterized as assistive devices that serve the same purpose: as walking aides. These general views were reappraised and tempered in this descriptive phenomenological study with 40 older women (aged 85 to 98 years) who were unable to leave their homes without help. The purpose was to describe the phenomena of negotiating reliance on canes and walkers as walking devices and the lifeworld context underlying each phe…
Recognizing my risk” and “Envisioning an intrusion event: A Phenomenological Approach to Perceived Risk of Intrusion
“Staying Close to Shore”: A Context for Older Rural Widows' Use of Health Care
Access to health care has been considered central to understanding older rural adults' utilization of health services. Access has been measured in terms of distance to care, use of care, and barriers to care; because older persons' relevant perceptions have received little attention, the validity of the typical access constructs is questionable. During a phenomenological study of their experiences of living alone at home, eight older rural widows…
Maternal and Child Health: Programs, Problems, and Policy in Public Health
The Assistant Professor, Co-coordinator, PhD Program, Sinclair School of Nursing, University of Missouri—Columbia, Columbia, Missouri
Managing Health Promotion Programs: Leadership Skills for the 21st Century
The Assistant Professor, Co-coordinator, PhD Program, Sinclair School of Nursing, University of Missouri—Columbia, Columbia, Missouri
Targeting Intermediaries to Recruit Older Women for Qualitative, Longitudinal Research
Crafting a comprehensive recruitment plan for qualitative, longitudinal research requires consideration of many issues, particularly when a culturally diverse sample of older women is to be recruited for interviews conducted in their homes. The development of a detailed recruitment plan for a phenomenological investigation of older widows' experience of home care is described. The plan's two inter-related foci (targeted intermediaries and sequent…
The Church Family and Kin: An Older Rural Black Woman's Support Network and Preferences for Care Providers
Although kin and church are considered premier support sources for rural elders, few scholars have undertaken descriptive studies to explore the nature of rural Black elders' support networks and their preferences for in-home service providers. In the case study described in this article, methods of support network analysis and descriptive phenomenology were used to analyze data from five lengthy, open-ended interviews with a 94-year-old rural Bl…
Setting Aside the Identity Furor: Staying Her Story-Course of Same-ness
In qualitative research, considerable emphasis has been placed on the representation of identity, but this discussion has occurred largely within the context of the Self-Other dichotomy. Here, an alternative perspective on identity is presented. It is emphasized that exploring a participant's "same-ness" is a critically important aperture to human experience that may be neglected in the furor over whose voice is being presented in text. In this a…
Moments of Apprehension in the Midst of a Certainty: Some Frail Older Widows' Lives with a Personal Emergency Response System
The author's aim is to describe older frail widows' experience of having a personal emergency response system (PERS). Over 3 years, she interviewed 8 frail widows during a study of the home care experience using a phenomenological method to describe the context and the phenomena of the experience. “Being certain that I can get help here quickly” was a context for the phenomena of “deciding whom to put on my list (of first responders)” and “keepin…
“Figuring Out Whether They Can Be Trusted”: Older Widows' Intentions Relative to Hired Non-Professional Home-Care Helpers
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to describe the experience of older women relative to trusting hired non-professional home-care helpers. Open-ended interviews were done about the home-care experience with 25 women over three years, and 14 women (age 80-93) shared data about hiring and trusting helpers. The women perceived risks to personal safety that adversely influenced willingness to seek new helpers. After hiring a helper, the …
Recognizing my risk” and “Envisioning an intrusion event: A Phenomenological Approach to Perceived Risk of Intrusion
Helping Young Adult Children With Traumatic Brain Injury: The Life-World of Mothers
Few scholars have described the personal-social context of the maternal experience of helping young adult children who have survived a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Viewing context as life-world, we used a descriptive phenomenological method to explore the life-world of 7 mothers whose young adult children had suffered a moderate or severe TBI at least 6 months earlier. Conducting three interviews with each mother, we discerned five features of l…
Older Homebound Women: Negotiating Reliance on a Cane or Walker
Canes and walkers are commonly characterized as assistive devices that serve the same purpose: as walking aides. These general views were reappraised and tempered in this descriptive phenomenological study with 40 older women (aged 85 to 98 years) who were unable to leave their homes without help. The purpose was to describe the phenomena of negotiating reliance on canes and walkers as walking devices and the lifeworld context underlying each phe…
Psychology (11 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Gerontology (5 works) · Nursing (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Family medicine (3 works)