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Questions and Answers
What is a characteristic of a healthy family in terms of community involvement?
What is a characteristic of a healthy family in terms of community involvement?
- They prioritize individual interests over community engagement
- They restrict their interactions to only family members
- They participate regularly in external groups and activities (correct)
- They focus solely on internal family dynamics
What is a goal of family-focused interventions at the primary prevention level?
What is a goal of family-focused interventions at the primary prevention level?
- To promote health education and availability of services (correct)
- To treat existing illnesses
- To reduce community engagement
- To focus solely on individual health issues
How do healthy families approach divergent ideas?
How do healthy families approach divergent ideas?
- They suppress individuality and impose uniformity
- They ignore individual perspectives and focus on group decisions
- They emphasize the importance of consensus over individuality
- They respect and accept divergent ideas (correct)
What is a key aspect of family-focused interventions at the aggregate level?
What is a key aspect of family-focused interventions at the aggregate level?
What is a characteristic of healthy families in terms of individual expression?
What is a characteristic of healthy families in terms of individual expression?
What is a goal of primary prevention in family-focused interventions?
What is a goal of primary prevention in family-focused interventions?
What is a way healthy families engage with the broader community?
What is a way healthy families engage with the broader community?
What is a key aspect of family-focused interventions at the primary prevention level?
What is a key aspect of family-focused interventions at the primary prevention level?
What do healthy families show an interest in?
What do healthy families show an interest in?
What is a benefit of family-focused interventions at the aggregate level?
What is a benefit of family-focused interventions at the aggregate level?
Study Notes
Cultural Assessment
- Includes family's definition of health and illness, approach to health maintenance and disease prevention, beliefs regarding illness-cure treatment, cultural preferences related to food, and degree of identification with cultural group
- Also assesses family functioning, child-rearing practices, and community health nursing
External Structure/Environment
- Consists of internal environment (home and space), external environment (neighborhood, industry, crime rate, and sanitation)
- Also includes extended family structure, including family of origin and family of procreation, as well as present generation and step-relatives
Structural Assessment Tools
- Genograms: diagrams showing the structure of intergenerational relationships
- Ecomaps: diagrams of the family's contact with others outside of the immediate family, picturing important connections between the family and the world
Family Functional Assessment
- Instrumental functioning: daily living tasks such as eating, sleeping, preparing meals, changing, and dressing
- Expressive functioning: emotional communication, verbal and non-verbal, circular problem-solving, roles, control, and beliefs
Emotional Communication
- Range and type of emotions expressed, with a wide range indicating healthy emotional communication
- Problem-solving patterns, including who identifies the problem, family solutions, and resources relied upon for help
Family Roles
- Established patterns of behavior for family members, including formal and informal roles
- Role conflict vs. role strain, with role strain involving tension between roles of one status and role conflict involving conflict between roles of two or more statuses
Healthy Family Environment
- Structured role relationships that meet changing family needs over time
- Active coping efforts to overcome life problems and issues
- Creation of safe and hygienic living conditions, with a positive and supportive emotional climate
- Demonstration of caring, encouragement of expression of feelings, and respect for divergent ideas
Primary Prevention Family-focused Interventions
- Family-level health promotion and protection, including education on safety, nutrition, physical activity, and rest
- Illness prevention through teaching effective hygiene and referrals for immunizations
- Aggregate-level advocacy for environmental protection, social justice, and availability of health promotion and illness prevention services
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Description
Test your knowledge on cultural assessment in community health nursing, including a family's definition of health and illness, approach to health maintenance, and cultural preferences. This quiz covers key concepts from Mary Jo Clark's Community Health Nursing, 5/e.
