Dorothea Orem's Theory Of Self Care

he etiology of these mechanisms is not quite clear, but the combination of these factors appears to create a vicious cycle of sleep disturbance (Fogelholm, Kronholm, Kukkonen-Harjula, Partonen, Partinen, & Härmä, 2007).

Sleep patterns among students attending college seem to not be influenced by class status (freshman, sophomore...). Research shows that more than one third of students described a feeling of fatigue in the daytime and requiring more than 30 minutes before they could fall asleep (Forquer, et al., 2008). Sleep quality indexes are performed to determine a student 's specific sleep problems, so then the researchers are able to give individual teaching sessions to help improve sleep quality if the participant agrees. Scholars

She breaks the self-care into three parts universal, developmental, and health deviation self-care requisites. Universal self- care requisites emphasize on the activities of daily living. Some of the main parts are eating, exercising, socializing, and sleeping. These are key parts in ensuring that you are taken care of and that you are maintaining a stability of health wellness, but also social needs. Developmental self- care requisites centers on altering your lifestyle with the changes around you. Lastly, Health deviation self-care requisites are the changes that you make in order to treat a condition or situation that you have. This would mean that you take necessary steps to ensure that it is being controlled (Orem, 2012). Her theory was somewhat relevant to what we wanted to test because we thought that with sleep deprivation in college students there would be an effect on physiological and psychological health. Our question was without self-care

People learn and adapt the environment that they are in this theory elaborates on that statement and the reinforcement behind the decisions. When someone makes a decision it is usually followed by a positive or negative experience. If you have a positive experience or if you see someone else have a positive experience then you are more likely to make that choice again. We learn from example and the experiences that follow (Bandura, 1972).

Dorothea Orem’s theory of self-care fits to our study because it discusses the importance of self-care. Sleep is a form of self-care, as it is vital for maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Sleep deprivation is detrimental to self-care and if people put more of their time into healthier sleep patterns they would probably have a more positive experience. This would create a chain effect and maybe influence them to make the decision