Family Assessment Part II

Running head: FAMILY HEALTH ASSESSMENT

FAMILY HEALTH ASSESSMENT

Family Health Assessment Part I

Name: Pedro P. Mico

Grand Canyon University: NRS-429VN-0501

Date: 10/09/2020

Appendix

Family Health Assessment Questionnaire:

Values/Health Perception

What efforts does your family take to increase or maintain their overall health?

All family members ensures that they feed on balance diet food and follow all medical instructions from the doctors.

Does anyone in the family smoke or indulge in drug use?

No member of the family smokes, use drugs or drink alcohol.

Does this family identify strongly with any cultural, ethnic, religious, or political groups?

The family subscribes to seventh day Adventist church and support the Republican Party.

Nutrition

Does the family make an effort to eat together regularly?

Yes the family eat their meals in the evening together in their home or in the nearest restaurant.

How much could you say your family eats in an average day?

The family eats together only a single meal in the evening but in total, they eat three to four meals.

When it comes to food, does the family make an effort to eat nutritious meals more often than anything else?

The family eat too many cereals, vegetables, fruits, fish and meat that is prepared by the mother or father at home.

Sleep/Rest

Does anyone in the family suffer from lack of sleep?

No one in the family has signs and symptoms of insomnia.

At what time does the family go to sleep?

Family members go to bed before 11 pm.

Do you find it difficult to sleep?

No member of the family has problems getting sleep.

Elimination

At what time do you visit the washroom and how many times?

Parents did not answer this question while children said 2-3 times a day.

How comfortable are you when using the washroom?

Family members have no problems and are comfortable when using the washrooms.

Activity/Exercise

Do you actively participate in physical activities?

All family members involve in physical exercises at least three times a week.

Apart from routine active activities, do you have specialized exercise?

Children jog while at school and play football while parents work at the gym.

Cognitive

Can you write down the phone numbers of your family members?

Family members answer positively and correctly.

How difficult is it to memorize something you learned last week?

The family has no problem recalling what learn last week.

Who is the current presidential candidates of the leading political parties?

Family members answer without hesitation

Sensory-Perception

Do you have any problem hearing or smelling?

Family members have no hearing and smelling problems.

Can you read something that is 10 meters away?

They can read without any problem.

Self-Perception

How do you see yourself to be in the eyes of other people?

Family members are happy to belong to the Browns and are happy for who they are before other people.

What are your future aspirations?

Parents want to see their children grow up to become responsible citizens, children want to succeed in their educational career.

Role Relationship

Describe your relationship with other members of your family?

All members of the family are in good relationship with one another.

Who do you relate with more in the family

All members of the family are in good relationship with one another but the parents relate with each other more.

Sexuality

Are you able to discuss your sexuality with other people?

Children are ready to share their sexuality information while parents are totally reluctant.

Have you heard of protected sex?

None of the family members respond to the question.

What do you think causes sexually transmitted infections?

Having sex with multiple partners without protection.

Coping

How do you manage issues that stresses you?

The parents say that if they are stressed they talk to each other while children said that they talk to friends, dancing and work to handler her stresses.

Who among your family members do you think you can talk too freely?

Parents talk to each other and to their parents while children talk to their parents and each other.

Family Health Assessment Part I

To examine the health status of different families, physicians have found health assessment important tools to unearth some health issues underpinning the quality of health among family members. It allows the practitioners to understand how the family can enhance the quality of health among its members and improve their general health (Barnes et al. 2020). Health caregivers can draw a health improvement plan based on the findings of their assessment and help the family meet their wellness needs in the long run. Just like it is the case in many family health assessment practices, Gordon’s functional health pattern framework was used to complete the current assessment.

1. Describe the family structure. Include individuals and any relevant attributes defining the family composition, race/ethnicity, social class, spirituality, and environment.

The family under assessment was made up of four family members, father, mother aged 39 and 35 years respectively, and two children, a boy and a girl aged 9 and 6 years respectively. Browns is a Caucasian American nuclear family that subscribes to Christianity seventh day Adventists to be specific. The family lives in their family-owned home in queens-New York. Brown who is the father of the home is a businessman who owns a private business in which he manages with his wife. Their children attend a k-12 school that is a few blocks away from their home. In general, Browns is a very social family and its family members enjoy spending time with neighbors if they are not engaged in important activities at home, school, or at work (Saksono et al. 2018, April). The children in this family seem to be healthy through the main health concerns is that of the mother who was diagnosed with high blood pressure some two years ago. The father is a strong and healthy man who reported to experience sporadic stress because of the wife’s condition.

2. Summarize the overall health behaviors of the family. Describe the current health of the family.

The findings of the interviews with the family members indicate that the father and the mother ensure that the family is fed on a good or healthy diet (Silva et al. 2020). Both the mother and the father help each other with house chaos especially during weekdays when they are from work. The family feeds on homemade food which in most cases comprises fruits, cereals, and salad. They prepare family meals every evening when they are back from their long day activities and after dinner, children will do their homework while the father will resolve to read business magazines in many cases as the mother watches her favorite drama and soups. Saturday is a unique day for the family as they go to the church and in most cases go for lunch in a nearby restaurant where they also spend some time as they wait for the father co complete business deals. Sunday is a free day for the family and since most of their neighbors go to church on Sunday, the family spends most of their time at home attending to different duties. In the evening, the family walks to the nearest mall to do shopping.

3. Describe at least two of the functional health pattern strengths noted in the findings. Discuss three areas in which health problems or barriers to health were identified.

The family has scheduled functional health patterns that help the members to be physically, emotionally, and mentally fit. Children in the family ride their bikes to and from school. The family also has a gym in the house with exercising equipment from where the mother and the father work at least three days a week. They also have frequent evening walk from the house to the mall and back. All family members reported consuming a lot of water when at home, school, or at work. The family members eat many fruits and are lovers of green vegetables, which are part of their daily diet (Barnes et al. 2020). The major health concern in the family is the mother who has hypertension. However, she always attends clinics once every week when her condition is checked, and she strictly adheres to the hypertension management plan her doctor-developed for her. Children in the family also spent most of their time watching movies and playing video games, the behaviors that pose health risks to them (Silva et al. 2020). The mother and the father in the family reported sleeping about six hours while children sleep for at least seven hours. Sometimes, the parents in the family complain of restlessness and stress that is job-related.

4. Describe how family systems theory can be applied to solicit changes in family members that, in turn, initiate positive changes to the overall family functions over time.

Family system theory used by physicians to explain the role family members play in changing the behaviors of each family member. It, therefore, define the roles of the family members in a personal capacity and how the individual behaviors contribute to or affect the health of other family members. It explains the foundation of children's behaviors, issues in the nuclear families, general family predicaments, and emotional cut-offs that significantly impact or explain the behaviors of the family (Erdem & Safi, 2018). This theory is important in a family setup as influences the decisions of other members and their behaviors too.

Conclusion

Based on the findings of the assessment exercise of the Browns, it vivid that the family members have a high level of cooperation in a matter that relates to their health. Similarly, family members exhibit a good relationship with each other. Their identity and general health behaviors can be described as moderate since they respond positively to changes relating to their health. The parents in the family exhibit a high level of skills to cope with their job-related stress while maintaining their family health.

References:

Barnes, M. D., Hanson, C. L., Novilla, L. B., Magnusson, B. M., Crandall, A. C., & Bradford, G. (2020). Family-Centered Health Promotion: Perspectives for Engaging Families and Achieving Better Health Outcomes.

Erdem, G., & Safi, O. A. (2018). The cultural lens approach to Bowen family systems theory: Contributions of family change theory. Journal of Family Theory & Review, 10(2), 469-483.

Saksono, H., Castaneda-Sceppa, C., Hoffman, J., Seif El-Nasr, M., Morris, V., & Parker, A. G. (2018, April). Family health promotion in low-SES neighborhoods: A two-month study of wearable activity tracking. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-13).

Silva, N. C. D. C. D., Mekaro, K. S., Santos, R. I. D. O., & Uehara, S. C. D. S. A. (2020). Knowledge and health promotion practice of Family Health Strategy nurses. Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 73(5).