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- MakaleAçık Erişim2025Is Spirituality a Source of Support or Conflict for Infertility? A Qualitative Study
Karakaş, Sevda; Akarsu, Rukiye Höbek; Tandoğan, Özden; Şahan, Özlem
Background: Infertility has become an important public health problem in developing countries due to its high prevalence. Infertility is a difficult crisis situation with psychological and spiritual dimensions. Aims: The aim of this study is to determine whether religion provides support or conflict for the infertility process in women. Methods: This research was designed as a descriptive qualitative study. This study was conducted in a governmental hospital's infertility outpatient clinic in Istanbul, Turkey. Twenty participants participated in the face-to-face, in-depth interview technique used to gather the research data. A semi-structured interview and a comprehensive information form were used to gather data. Results: In line with the interviews with the participants, 2 main themes, 9 sub-themes and 12 codes for the sub-themes were determined as the findings obtained based on the content analysis in the study, positive religious behaviors and negative religious behaviors. Conclusions: In our study, it was found that women felt unhappy, hopeless and helpless and could not accept not being able to have children. Women blamed religion for their infertility. Religion first caused infertile women to experience conflict. After the conflict, women with religious affiliation perceived religious support as a source of conflict for others.
- MakaleYalnız künye2021Health research in vegan women
Özcan, Handan; Elkoca, Ayşe; Şahan, Özlem; Yilmaz, Sibel; Erişen, Begüm
Study Objectives: This planned research aimed to identify the conditions for women’s health in women who prefer vegan diets. Method: The study consists of vegan women and the sample consists of a total of 150 women who agreed to participate in the study. The data was collected through a questionnaire consisting of 34 questions. Associations and vegan women were reached out via social media. Results: The average age of the participants was 28.96±8.50 and 33.3% were married. The average year in which women continue to eat vegan is 3.29±5.25. 62% of vegan women stated that their menstrual periods were painless, 87.3% stated that their menstrual periods were regular, and 75.3% stated that they did not have any gynecological diseases. The most common complaints in vegan women are stress and anxiety (27.1%), continuous discharge (27.1), depression (25), polycystic ovary syndrome (20.8), urinary tract infection (20.8), and fibroids (12.5). 18% of vegan women had been diagnosed with anemia, of which 18.8% used anemia treatment. Conclusion: It was found that vegan women did not have many complaints in terms of gynecology while existing complaints were similar or even lower in terms of disease rates seen in the total population. The study group’s high level of education and awareness and regular health checkups are among the factors affecting the results. The low vegan diet averages of the women covered in the study and the fact that a greater number of women were out of reach show the limitations of the study.