Ethical health and its challenges from women's perspectives:A qualitative content analysis

Women are like a pillar for their own family and family، itself، has been built upon tradition، belief and morality. This is women’s moral value which is represented in the ethical health of the individual and the society. Therefore، women’s ethical health should be identified from women’s own perspectives. The aim of this study was to identify middle-aged women perception of the concept of Ethical health and its challenges. This is a qualitative study and the method of content analysis was carried out. In this study، 15 middle-aged women were recruited; by purposive sampling and semi-structured interviews، face to face interviews were conducted. Accordingly، each interview was reviewed، and then categories were extracted. First، the semantic similarities were reviewed and the categories were identified and then in final review the related categories placed in the same categories. The main categories، from women’s perspectives، were devotion، preserving moral values and ethical challenges. Devotion category includes subcategories such as prioritizing the health of family members and trying to save marriage. Preserving moral values category includes subcategories such as respecting values and consolidating beliefs over time. Moral challenges category consists of individual and familial challenges subcategories. From the perspective of middle-aged women، the Ethical health is of high importance which influenced on various personal، domestic and social aspects of their life. The findings of the present study presented new dimensions of middle-aged women’s health regarding Ethical health which can finally have different consequences on domestic and social ethical health.