Experiences With Family Health Conversations at Residential Homes for Older People

Dorell, Åsa; Bäckström, Britt; Ericsson, Marie; Johansson, Maria; Östlund, Ulrika; Sundin, Karin

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“…Also, previous studies have shown that families participating in FamHC have improved insight, understanding and communication. Thus, negative feelings could be expressed openly and reflected upon within the family (17,(31)(32)(33)(34)(35). Also, a study by Sundin et al (36) shows that family members share their beliefs and talk about serious issues.…”

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Envisioning the future as expressed within family health conversations by families of persons suffering from stroke

Sundin

Pusa

Jonsson

et al. 2017

Scandinavian Caring Sciences

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Envisioning the future as expressed within family health conversations by families of persons suffering from stroke

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Scandinavian Caring Sciences

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“…Research into FamHc shows positive impact for families [19-22, 30-32]. Based on the increased evidence in the literature on positive outcomes of paying attention to families in health care, FamHC may facilitate building a trusting relationship with families that have a family member living in a residential home.…”

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Family Health Conversations have Positive Outcomes on Families - A Mixed Method Research Study

Dorell¹,

Isaksson²,

Östlund³

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Background:Having a family member living in a residential home affects the entire family and can be hard to handle. Family members require encouraging and open communication support from nurses during and after relocation to a residential home. A Family Systems Nursing intervention, “Family Health Conversations” (FamHC) was conducted in order to strengthen the health of families having relatives at residential home for older people.Objectives:The aims of this study were to evaluate the responses to the Family Health Conversations in families with a member living at a residential home for older people and to integrate the empirical results with a theoretical assumption upon which the intervention was based.Methods:A mixed methods research design was used. The Swedish Health-Related Quality of Life Survey and the Family Hardiness Index were administered before and 6 months after the intervention. Qualitative data was collected by semi-structured interviews with each family 6 months post-intervention. The sample included 10 families comprising 22 family members.Result:Main finding was that FamHCs helped family members process their feelings about having a member living at a residential home and made it easier for them to deal with their own situations. FamHCs helped to ease their consciences, improve their emotional well-being, and change their beliefs about their own insufficiency and guilt. Seeing problems from a different perspective facilitated the families’ thinking in a new way.Conclusion:These findings showed that FamHC could be an important type of intervention to improve family functioning and enhance the emotional well-being.

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“…[28] It might be that these new and positive ways of communicating were kept in their own dialogues within the family after the intervention was concluded. Also, Dorell et al [26] have shown within the context of residential care, that one month after participating in FamHC there was an increase in the communication within the family. An increased quality in family communications has also been found in other studies on family systems nursing interventions.…”

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“…[24] Empirical studies revealing effects and responses after participating in FamHC are, however, still scarce, but the intervention has started to be evaluated from various angles. [25][26][27][28][29] From these studies, FamHC has been described as a successful conversation with a possible working mechanism in which narrating, listening and reconsidering in interaction support family health. The FamHCs mediate understanding of multiple ways of being and acting, see new possibilities and developing new meanings and hope to make the situation manageable.…”

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Responses after participating in Family Health Conversations in families with a family member who has suffered a stroke: A mixed methods research study

Sundin¹,

Bäckström²,

Lindh³

et al. 2016

Clinical Nursing Studies

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Background: It has been proposed that support for families in which a family member has suffered a stroke should involve the whole family system. Aim: The aim was to evaluate the responses of Family Health Conversation (FamHC) in families with a member under the age of 65 who has been diagnosed with stroke. Methods: In this mixed methods research study, families were included in an intervention group and in a control group. For both groups pre-and post-intervention quantitative data was collected and for the intervention group, qualitative data was collected post-intervention. Underlying theoretical propositions and the two data sets were then integrated. Results: Family health measured as "the general atmosphere of the interaction of the family" had improved in the intervention group when compared to the control group. The intervention families, moreover, described how they had become more cooperative, their communication had improved, they had become more confident with their situation and also when planning for the future when comparing to before the FamHC. Conclusions: Based on the empirical results supporting the theoretical proposition underlying FamHC, we conclude that it works as intended, and the evidence for the theoretical proposition is thereby strengthened. This paper contributes to the scientific evidence concerning FamHC. With the available evidence, RNs are suggested to consider changing practice so as to work in a more family-centred way to support families living with ill-health. Implementing FamHC can be one way of undertaking such supportive work.

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Experiences With Family Health Conversations at Residential Homes for Older People

Cited by 19 publications

References 35 publications

Envisioning the future as expressed within family health conversations by families of persons suffering from stroke

Envisioning the future as expressed within family health conversations by families of persons suffering from stroke

Family Health Conversations have Positive Outcomes on Families - A Mixed Method Research Study

Responses after participating in Family Health Conversations in families with a family member who has suffered a stroke: A mixed methods research study

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