The problems of women working in greenhouse agriculture in rural area in Turkey: A phenomenological study from health and social perspective

ADIBELLİ D., KIRCA N., ÖZKAN İ.

HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE IN THE COMMUNITY, cilt.30, sa.1, ss.203-211, 2022 (SSCI) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 30 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2022
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1111/hsc.13393
  • Dergi Adı: HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE IN THE COMMUNITY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, ASSIA, Abstracts in Social Gerontology, AgeLine, CAB Abstracts, Child Development & Adolescent Studies, CINAHL, EMBASE, MEDLINE, Psycinfo, Public Affairs Index, Social services abstracts, Sociological abstracts
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.203-211
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: greenhouse agriculture, health, qualitative, rural, women
  • Akdeniz Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Working in agriculture may cause serious health problems due to heavy working conditions and chemical exposure. This Husserlian phenomenological qualitative study was conducted with 22 women working in greenhouse agriculture to investigate the health and social problem(s). In the evaluation of the data, Colaizzi's seven-step content analysis method and thematic analysis were used. The Kappa analysis was performed with two independent experts to measure the reliability of comparative fit, and the value obtained in the analysis was 1.00 (perfect fit). Based on the content analysis, six themes were defined. All participants indicated that they had different reproductive health-related problems. Some participants stated that their children had respiratory system-related problems and that they were subjected to physical, verbal/emotional and sexual violence by their husbands. It is important to provide health education, counselling services and screening programmes for women who work in greenhouse agriculture and thus are in the at-risk group for poor health.