TY - JOUR
T1 - Experiencing transitions
T2 - An emerging middle-range theory
AU - Meleis, Afaf Ibrahim
AU - Sawyer, Linda M.
AU - Im, Eun Ok
AU - Messias, De Anne K.Hilfinger
AU - Schumacher, Karen
PY - 2000/9
Y1 - 2000/9
N2 - Changes in health and illness of individuals create a process of transition, and clients in transition tend to be more vulnerable to risks that may in turn affect their health. Uncovering these risks may be enhanced by understanding the transition process. As a central concept of nursing, transition has been analyzed, its components identified, and a framework to articulate and to reflect the relationship between these components has been defined. In this article, the previous conceptual analysis of transitions is extended and refined by drawing on the results of five different research studies that have examined transitions using an integrative approach to theory development. The emerging middle-range theory of transitions consists of types and patterns of transitions, properties of transition experiences, facilitating and inhibiting conditions, process indicators, outcome indicators, and nursing therapeutics. The diversity, complexity, and multiple dimensionality of transition experiences need to be further explored and incorporated in future research and nursing practice related to transitions.
AB - Changes in health and illness of individuals create a process of transition, and clients in transition tend to be more vulnerable to risks that may in turn affect their health. Uncovering these risks may be enhanced by understanding the transition process. As a central concept of nursing, transition has been analyzed, its components identified, and a framework to articulate and to reflect the relationship between these components has been defined. In this article, the previous conceptual analysis of transitions is extended and refined by drawing on the results of five different research studies that have examined transitions using an integrative approach to theory development. The emerging middle-range theory of transitions consists of types and patterns of transitions, properties of transition experiences, facilitating and inhibiting conditions, process indicators, outcome indicators, and nursing therapeutics. The diversity, complexity, and multiple dimensionality of transition experiences need to be further explored and incorporated in future research and nursing practice related to transitions.
KW - Middle-range theory
KW - Research based theory
KW - Transition
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U2 - 10.1097/00012272-200009000-00006
DO - 10.1097/00012272-200009000-00006
M3 - Article
C2 - 10970036
AN - SCOPUS:0034268664
VL - 23
SP - 12
EP - 28
JO - Advances in Nursing Science
JF - Advances in Nursing Science
SN - 0161-9268
IS - 1
ER -