Determination of Nursing Diagnoses in Children of Agricultural Laborer Families in South Eastern Regions of Turkey

PURPOSE Identifying functional health patterns and nursing diagnoses of migrant agricultural laborer families. METHODS Interpretative—qualitative study based on interviews with 162 mothers of 0‐ to 2‐year‐old children in two Turkish provinces. FINDINGS Health perception‐health management: growth and development, risk for being delayed; health maintenance, ineffective; health behavior, risk‐prone; risk for contamination; risk for sudden infant death syndrome; and risk for injury. Nutritional‐metabolic: Risk for infection; and breastfeeding, interrupted. Self‐perception: risk for chronic low self‐esteem, disturbed self‐esteem; and powerlessness. Role‐relationship: impaired parenting; and dysfunctional family process. Coping‐stress tolerance: coping, disabled family; violence, risk for other‐directed. Cognitive‐perceptive: knowledge deficit CONCLUSIONS Nursing diagnoses of this population were reported for the first time. IMPLICATIONS Addressing agricultural laborer families’ diagnoses will positively affect maternal—child health.