self-care
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Self-care is the process of establishing behaviors to ensure holistic well-being of oneself, to promote health, and actively manage illness when it occurs. Individuals engage in some form of self-care daily with food choices, exercise, sleep, and hygiene. Self-care is not only a solo activity, as the community—a group that supports the person performing self-care—overall plays a role in access to, implementation of, and success of self-care activities.
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Research
318,883 papers- A middle-range theory of self-care of chronic illness.ANS. Advances in nursing science · 2012
- Self-Care in the Bereavement Process.Critical care nursing clinics of North America · 2020
- Self-care: An effective strategy to manage chronic diseases.Advances in clinical and experimental medicine : official organ Wroclaw Medical University · 2024
- Self-care concept for people with elimination ostomy: a scoping review.Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S P · 2024
- Nurse spiritual self-care: A scoping review.Nursing outlook · 2021
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Article
30 sectionsContents
- History
- Self-care and illness
- Factors influencing self-care
- Measurement of self-care behaviors
- Middle-range theory of self-care of chronic illness
- Self-care maintenance
- Interventions to improve maintenance behaviors
- Monitoring
- Barriers to monitoring
- Interventions to improve monitoring behaviors
- Management
- Barriers to management
- Access to care
- Financial constraints
- Age
- Prior experience
- Health care literacy
- Co-morbid conditions
- Interventions to improve management
- Stoplight
- Skills teaching
- Self-care for caregivers
- Self-care in philosophy
- Black feminist philosophy
- Western philosophy
- Self-Care in the Workplace
- Self-Care and Capitalism
- See also
- References
- External links
Self-care is the process of establishing behaviors to ensure holistic well-being of oneself, to promote health, and actively manage illness when it occurs. Individuals engage in some form of self-care daily with food choices, exercise, sleep, and hygiene. Self-care is not only a solo activity, as the community—a group that supports the person performing self-care—overall plays a role in access to, implementation of, and success of self-care activities.
Routine self-care is important when someone is not experiencing any symptoms of illness, but self-care becomes essential when illness occurs. General benefits of routine self-care include prevention of illness, improved mental health, and comparatively better quality of life. Self-care practices vary from individual to individual. Self-care is seen as a partial solution to the global rise in health care costs that is placed on governments worldwide.