Understanding the Lives and Challenges of Women in Poverty after TANF.

Welfare Reform has caused a dramatic change in the lives and health of single mothers living in poverty. This qualitative study explored the health and socioeconomic lives of 22 community-dwelling women in poverty in the years after they were terminated from the current work-based welfare program intended to move women from welfare to work and independence. The instruments were a semistructured interview guide, the HANES General Well-Being Schedule, and a demographic data form.

TANF over time: the tale of three studies.

We compare the experiences of women from three studies who were in different stages of participation in the U.S. welfare program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).

The multidimensional burden of hepatitis C and its treatment: a case study.

The purpose of this case study was to gain an in-depth understanding of the mental, physical, and emotional burden of being infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) from the perspective of an individual living with the disease and undergoing antiviral treatment. Interviews were conducted during and after antiviral therapy with 1 participant chosen from a Midwest HCV clinic population. Interviews were audio recorded, transcribed verbatim, and coded.

Impoverished women with children and no welfare benefits: the urgency of researching failures of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program.

In the United States, the numbers of impoverished women with children and no cash safety net are increasing and constitute an emerging population. Many have exhausted cash benefits from Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, the work-based welfare program that replaced Aid to Families With Dependent Children in 1996. We examine empirical evidence about poverty and use of welfare programs in the United States, jobs for women on welfare, the consequences of leaving welfare, health disparities disproportionate to those of the general population, and outcomes for children of needy families.

Pill taking from the perspective of HIV-Infected women who are vulnerable to antiretroviral treatment failure.

We conducted this longitudinal qualitative study to gain in-depth understanding of HIV-infected women's experiences with antiretroviral (ARV) regimens, exploring from their perspective what medication taking was like for them and what it meant in the context of their everyday lives. We engaged 55 participants over a 2-year period in 10 narrative-eliciting interviews. From their medication stories, we were able to track a 2-year prospective pattern of self-reported adherence for each individual who was prescribed ARVs.

Women who did not succeed in the work-based welfare program.

Welfare reform, enacted more than 5 years ago, created dramatic changes in the lives of single mothers living in poverty. The purpose of this study was to describe the lives of women who were unable to sustain involvement with work-based welfare. A multimethodological design and snowball sampling were used to gather qualitative and quantitative data from 31 urban women.

Perceptions of health and well-being among women in a work-based welfare program.

Unlabelled: Women who are single parents, poor, and employed in low-paying jobs have little choice about being dependent on public assistance programs to meet basic personal and family needs.

Objective: To explore women's perceptions of their health and well-being while enrolled in a work-based welfare program. This is the second in a series of articles about Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.

Eleven years of primary health care delivery in an academic nursing center.

Academic community nursing centers (CNCs) emphasize partnership with the communities they serve to provide access to services that promote, restore, and maintain health. In this study, selected data from an 11-year clinical data set are presented to show the scope of academic CNC nursing practice, describe client services and expanded nursing roles, show the use of a computerized clinical documentation system in tracking nursing practice, and assess the usefulness of the Lundeen conceptual model. The study design was a retrospective review of computerized client record data.

The health effects of work-based welfare.

Purpose: To identify effects of work-based welfare on the health and well-being of participants. Data included the needs and experiences of people in the work-based welfare program.

Design: The population for this qualitative study was adults enrolled in the work-based welfare program in a large urban community in the U.

A winning combination: women, literacy, and participation in health care.

Health information materials written at the appropriate reading level help individuals manage their own health care. In this study, we assessed the reading ability of clients and readability of the patient information materials at a rural women's health clinic. We administered a reading comprehension test to 50 subjects and tested the patient education materials using a readability formula.