Understanding family structure and style is essential to patient and family care. Conducting a family interview and needs assessment gathers information to identify strengths, as well as potential barriers to health. This information ultimately helps develop family-centered strategies for support and guidance.
This family health assessment is a two-part assignment. The information you gather in this initial assignment will be utilized for the second assignment in Topic 3.
Develop an interview questionnaire to be used in a family-focused functional assessment. The questionnaire must include three open-ended, family-focused questions to assess functional health patterns for each of the following:
- Values/Health Perception
- Nutrition
- Sleep/Rest
- Elimination
- Activity/Exercise
- Cognitive
- Sensory-Perception
- Self-Perception
- Role Relationship
- Sexuality
- Coping
Select a family, other than your own, and seek permission from the family to conduct an interview. Utilize the interview questions complied in your interview questionnaire to conduct a family-focused functional assessment. Document the responses as you conduct the interview.
Upon completion of the interview, write a 750-1,000-word paper. Analyze your assessment findings. Submit your questionnaire as an appendix with your assignment.
Include the following in your paper:
- Describe the family structure. Include individuals and any relevant attributes defining the family composition, race/ethnicity, social class, spirituality, and environment.
- Summarize the overall health behaviors of the family. Describe the current health of the family.
- Based on your findings, 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.
- 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.
Interview Questions for family health assessment
Values, health perceptions
a)What is your family definition of health?
b)What aspect or goal of health is most important to you as a family?
c)What do you do to try to remain healthy or regain health?
Nutrition
a)How would you describe your diet?
b)What does a healthy diet look like to you?
c)What did you have for breakfast?
Sleep/rest
a) Do they fall asleep before noon if they are not active?
b) Do they fall asleep during active tasks before noon?
c) Do they expe- rience sleepiness after lunch?
Activity/exercise
a)How much exercise do you get in a typical week?
b) What types of exercise do you do?
c)Do you exercise at home or do you have a membership in a fitness club?
Cognitive
a)How will you rate your IQ?
b)Do you take IQ tests?
C)Do you participate in cognitive activities, and how often?
Sensory-perception
a)Do you have access to public transportation?
b). How often do your friends and family visit?
C)Do you have any problems in any of your senses?
Self-perception
a)What would you do if fear was not a factor and you could not fail?
b)Are you living the life of your dreams?
c)What were you doing when you felt most passionate and alive?
Role relationship
a)What do you look for in a friendship?
B)What is/was your longest lasting friendship and how did it last so long?
C)Do you think you can have multiple best friends or only one?
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