Fatuma Kotile
Inver Hills Community College, USA
Title: Building a village among Oromo East African women struggling with sadness in a large urban setting
Biography
Biography: Fatuma Kotile
Abstract
Older Oromo women who immigrated to the United States in the early 1990s have undergone several stressful life events including war, famine, acculturation, harsh cold climates, a new language barrier with English, and a variety of lifespan experiences alien from those in their native country, Ethiopia. Coping with these new stress triggers correlates with a high level of depressive symptoms that Oromo people call “sadness.” The purpose of this project is to create and disseminate a transcultural model of nursing practices in a community that aims to alleviate sadness among older Oromo women by promoting and fostering community building through means of healthy life choices in the midst of change. A praxis approach guided by Madeleine Leininger’s theory of culture care.