scholarly journals Family Interactions Regarding Fathers’ Smoking and Cessation in Shanghai, China

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 199-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla J. Berg ◽  
Pinpin Zheng ◽  
Michelle C. Kegler
Keyword(s):  
Smoking Prevalence ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Spousal Support ◽  
Gender Disparities ◽  
Work Culture ◽  
Family Interactions ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Small Children ◽  
Marital Interactions ◽  
The Family

Introduction: Spousal support predicts smoking cessation. China is the world's largest consumer of tobacco, with drastic differences in smoking prevalence among men and women. Thus, understanding marital interactions around husbands’ smoking has implications for cultures with similarly large gender disparities in smoking.Aims: We examined interactions among family members regarding husbands’ smoking in homes with small children in Shanghai.Methods: In Spring 2013, we conducted in-person semi-structured interviews among 13 male smokers and 17 female nonsmokers recruited from an urban and a suburban community in Shanghai.Results/Findings: To encourage husbands’ cessation or reduction, some women reported intervening either directly or indirectly through their children, emphasizing the health consequences for the smoker and the family. Some women reported not conversing about cessation due to concern about conflict, tolerance, or resignation. Women reported that their husbands’ responses to anti-smoking messages from family members included promises to quit in the future or noting the strength of the nicotine addiction and the disadvantages of quitting. Men reported the importance of smoking in work/culture and argued against the research about the harms of smoking.Conclusions: Interventions targeting motivators for cessation among men and to support women in encouraging their husbands’ cessation should be developed.

scholarly journals Family Health Climate: A Qualitative Exploration of Everyday Family Life and Health

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hagen Wäsche ◽  
Christina Niermann ◽  
Jelena Bezold ◽  
Alexander Woll
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Health Behavior ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Family Interactions ◽  
Interaction Patterns ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Family ◽  
Health Related

Abstract Background The family is an important social environment for children’s, adolescents’ and adults’ health. However, studies mostly focused on dyadic and unidirectional influences of parents on their children. Studies addressing influences arising from daily family life and including family level influences are rare and the existing studies solely focus on the relevance for children’s health or health-related behaviors. We use a qualitative approach to explore how daily family life and its inherent health-related cues affect family members’ physical activity and eating behavior. Methods Semi-structured interviews utilizing an interview guide were conducted. Since we aimed to examine family life, we analyzed both parents’ and their children’s views on health-related interaction patterns and family environmental influences on individuals’ health-related behavior. Twenty-two members of seven families were interviewed. Transcripts of the interviews were systematically analyzed following Grounded Theory principles.Results The interviews revealed that various individual as well as environmental factors shape health-related aspects of daily family life. A model was developed that organizes these influencing factors on family life with regard to health-related interactions and the emergence of the Family Health Climate (FHC) – reflecting shared perceptions and cognitions regarding a healthy lifestyle within families – and its consequences. Family interactions and family time, often realized through shared family meals, are key factors for families’ health with regard to nutrition and physical activity. The FHC showed to affect various aspects related to health behavior of individual family members.Conclusions The model allows to gain knowledge on underlying processes and mechanisms of family life that influences individuals’ health-related behavior. Based on a better understanding of the association between family life and individual health behavior the development of family-based interventions can be informed. Furthermore, the insights can help to guide further research focusing on families as a system.

scholarly journals Family health climate: a qualitative exploration of everyday family life and health

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hagen Wäsche ◽  
Christina Niermann ◽  
Jelena Bezold ◽  
Alexander Woll
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Health Behavior ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Family Interactions ◽  
Interaction Patterns ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Family ◽  
Health Related

Abstract Background The family is an important social environment for children’s, adolescents’ and adults’ health. However, studies mostly focused on dyadic and unidirectional influences of parents on their children. Studies addressing influences arising from daily family life and including family-level influences are rare and the existing studies solely focus on the relevance for children’s health or health-related behaviors. We use a qualitative approach to explore how daily family life and its inherent health-related cues affect family members’ physical activity and eating behavior. Methods Semi-structured interviews utilizing an interview guide were conducted. Since we aimed to examine family life, we analyzed both parents’ and their children’s views on health-related interaction patterns and family environmental influences on individuals’ health-related behavior. Twenty-two members of seven families were interviewed. Transcripts of the interviews were systematically analyzed following Grounded Theory principles. Results The interviews revealed that various individual as well as environmental factors shape health-related aspects of daily family life. A model was developed that organizes these influencing factors on family life with regard to health-related interactions and the emergence of the Family Health Climate (FHC) – reflecting shared perceptions and cognitions regarding a healthy lifestyle within families – and its consequences. Family interactions and family time, often realized through shared family meals, are key factors for families’ health with regard to nutrition and physical activity. The FHC showed to affect various aspects related to health behavior of individual family members. Conclusions The model sheds light on underlying processes and mechanisms of family life that influences individuals’ health-related behavior. Based on a better understanding of the association between family life and individual health behavior the development of family-based interventions can be informed. Furthermore, the insights can help to guide further research focusing on families as a system.

Experience and impact of the 1-2-3 magic parent programme for children with ADHD on the family unit from the mothers’ perspectives: A narrative analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 136749352110399
Author(s):  
Stephanie Allen ◽  
Stephen K Bradley ◽  
Eileen Savage
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Children With Adhd ◽  
Family Unit ◽  
The Family ◽  
Narrative Constructions ◽  
The Impact

Parent programmes are often used in the clinical management of children with ADHD. Research into parent programmes has predominantly been concerned with their effectiveness and much less attention has been paid to the impact that they may be having on the family and the inter-relationships between family members. This study explores the perspectives and experiences of parents of children with ADHD, who participated in a parent programme, including its impact on the family unit. A purposive sample of six mothers of children with ADHD who completed a 1-2-3 Magic parent programme in Ireland was invited to take part in this qualitative study. Data were collected by means of individual in-depth, semi-structured interviews and a narrative inquiry approach further informed analysis of the interview data. Two major narrative constructions of experience: ‘parent programme as positive’ and ‘parent programme as negative’ were identified. Outcomes from this study illustrated some unintended consequences caused by the parent programme (i.e. sibling rivalry and conflict arising between family members). Mothers believed that the parent programme was a beneficial intervention, but it was not without its flaws and they felt it was helpful for their family when used in conjunction with other supports and mediations.

Families Living with Mental Illness

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aditi Rana
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Primary Caregivers ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Indian Context ◽  
The Family ◽  
Partner Research

Mental illness is a growing reality of our times. Usually in a typical Indian family, the parents act as the primary caregivers for the child suffering from mental disorder. For adult sufferers, it can also be siblings or offspring, and  at times even spouse or partner. Research on the experiences of families of mentally ill people has been minimal in the Indian context. This study aims to shift the focus from the mentally ill patients to the suffering of the caregivers and families of the patient keeping in mind the interconnected well being of the family in a collectivist culture. Following a qualitative approach, narratives have been taken from the family members of mentally ill (narratives of 8 families with mentally ill person) and also the mental health professionals (two) through semi structured interviews. The findings suggest that the family members suffer from a significant amount of stress accompanied by burden. Also, they feel secluded from the society and experience a lack of assistance to deal with the mentally ill member of the family.

scholarly journals The Impact of Mobile Phone on Family Life: A Case Study of Lahore, Pakistan

2020 ◽  
Vol Volume 4 (Issue 3) ◽  
pp. 192-207
Author(s):  
Dr. Muhammad Shabbir Sarwar ◽  
Humara Gulzar ◽  
Muhammad Ahsan Bhatti
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Family Time ◽  
The Family ◽  
Mobile Phone Usage ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this research paper is to explore the negative relationship between mobile phone and family life as well as negative impact of mobile phone usage on family life norms and traditions. The study is based on data collected through mixed method i.e. survey of a random sample of 1300 people and structured interviews conducted with a sub-sample of 13 people in Lahore, Pakistan. The study found that mobile phone is negatively affecting the family life due to its massive usage during family socialization time. The quantitative analysis found that over 85% of respondents use mobile phone for communication with the people other than their family members when they are with their family; over 50% make calls to others during their family time; 83% make SMS; 75 feel that they ignore their family due to cell phone; 86% thinks that mobile has influenced their family time face-to-face socialization negatively and 91% said that they exchanged harsh words with their family members for at least once or more due to using mobile phone during family time. The study reveals that male members of the traditional families are more responsible for using mobile phone during family time and damaging family traditions as compared to the female members. However, parents remain very concerned about the possibilities of misuse of mobile phone by female teenagers of the family. In most cases family elders were annoyed with the youth for adopting this change in their behaviors damaging the family traditions.

Family Alliance Stability and Change From Pregnancy to Toddlerhood and Marital Correlates

2006 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 213-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Favez ◽  
France Frascarolo ◽  
Elisabeth Fivaz-Depeursinge
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Marital Satisfaction ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Family Interactions ◽  
Stability And Change ◽  
The Family ◽  
Virtual Interaction

This paper presents a longitudinal study of the development of family interactions from pregnancy to toddlerhood, and their link to parents’ marital satisfaction. The participants consisted of 38 non referred primiparous families. We used an observational setting, the Lausanne Trilogue Play (LTP), to evaluate the family alliance, namely the interactive coordination between family members. Families played a virtual interaction with a doll at the 5th month of pregnancy, and then played with the child at 3, 9 and 18 months. Results show that for 30 families, the quality of family interactions is the same at every point of measurement whereas for 8 families, there is a significant decrease of quality of interactions from pregnancy to 18 months. Those families are paradoxically the ones with the highest self-reported marital satisfaction. Implications of the results are discussed.

scholarly journals Kaedah Komunikasi Keluarga dalam Surah Āli ‘Imrān Ayat 159: Kajian Amalan Mualaf Cina di Selangor

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-53
Author(s):  
Azirawati Abdul Rahman ◽  
Nor Raudah Hj Siren ◽  
Yusmini Md Yusoff
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Complete Solution ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Islamic Perspective ◽  
The Family ◽  
Communication Approach

Communication is one of important aspects in forming a happy and prosperous family. Poor communication in family would give negative effects on emotions and psychology of the family members. In this context, Islam has a complete solution to address all problems related to families’ matters which occur in daily life. This article discusses about family’s communication from Islamic perspective according to Surah Āli ‘Imrān verse 159. The study found that the style of communication suggested for Muslims family is around gentle and soft speaking, musyawarah and family’s relationship sustenance. The former communication approach is explained through six kinds of language methods mentioned in the Quran namely qaulan layyina, qaulan ma'rufa, qaulan sadida, qawlan karīmā, qaulan maysura and qaulan baligha. These methods of language were employed by the selected ten Chinese research informants through semi-structured interviews. Descriptive qualitative analysis was conducted thematically. The findings showed that all informants emphasized the importance of using these methods as means of getting attention, generating love and sustaining family relationships.

scholarly journals Split household and smoking behavior of rural migrants in China

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zicheng Wang ◽  
Qiushi Wu ◽  
Juan Ming
Keyword(s):  
Smoking Prevalence ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Smoking Behavior ◽  
Urban Migration ◽  
Transmission Channel ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Rural Migrants ◽  
The Family ◽  
Lower Lever ◽  
Rural Urban Migration

Abstract Background: With Hukou constraints, a large proportion of rural migrants have to leave part of their family members stay at hometown, the split household may induce smoking behavior among rural migrants in destination cites.Objective: This study aims to address association between split household and smoking behavior, while the main discussion is to explore the differences between the three forms of split households---involving sole migration, couple migration, and family migration.Method: A unique and comprehensive database named Rural Urban Migration in China (RUMiC-2009) is applied to explore the association between split household and the smoking behavior; Analyses are conducted using the Chi-square tests and Logit regression.Results: The prevalence of smoking among family migrants (23.54%) is less than those sole migrants (25.46%) and couple migrants (35.13%). The family migrants (OR= 0.7445; 95% CI= 0.5955, 0.930) and couple migrants (OR= 0.8785; 95% CI= 0.6939, 1.1121) are less prone to smoke than the sole migrants counterparts. The family migrants (Coefficient= -0.0787; CI= -0.1229,-0.0346) and couple migrants (Coefficient= -0.0726; CI= -0.1188,-0.0264) show lower lever of depression compared with the sole migration groups.Conclusions: Split household is positively associated with the smoking behavior of rural migrants. While the depression may play as the potential transmission channel linked the spit household and smoking prevalence.

scholarly journals Support systems in the pediatric intensive therapy unit: family perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (suppl 3) ◽  
pp. 243-250
Author(s):  
Jéssica Stragliotto Bazzan ◽  
Viviane Marten Milbrath ◽  
Ruth Irmgard Bärtschi Gabatz ◽  
Marilu Correa Soares ◽  
Eda Schwartz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Support System ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Intensive Therapy ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Hospitalized Children ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Intensive Therapy Unit ◽  
Family Perspective ◽  
The Family ◽  
Adaptation Model

ABSTRACT Objective: to identify and to analyze the support systems used by family members for the adaptation process to the child’s hospitalization in the intensive care unit. Method: qualitative research, conducted in a hospital located in the Southern Brazil. Data were collected between June and July 2017, through semi-structured interviews with family members of hospitalized children. The adaptation model and thematic analysis were used for data processing. Results: four themes emerged: family and friends as a support system; the family members of other hospitalized children as a support system; spirituality as a support system; health team as a support system. Final considerations: identifying the support systems used in the process of family adaptation and their manifestations of interdependence was possible. The need of the nurses to intensify the listening to strengthen the support system of the family members of the children hospitalized in the unit studied.

scholarly journals Scoring interventions in family relations regarding the care for the child with a chronic condition

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniele Castro Barbosa ◽  
Francisca Georgina Macedo de Sousa ◽  
Joséte Luzia Leite
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Conditions ◽  
Chronic Condition ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Family Experiences ◽  
The Family ◽  
Complex Thought ◽  
Children With Chronic Conditions

The study aimed to reveal intervening conditions towards the care of children with chronic condition. The Complex Thought was used as theoretical framework and the Grounded Theory as methodological. Data were collected from January to August 2012, through semi-structured interviews in two follow-up services for children with chronic conditions and in the homes of participants. Participated 16 relatives of children with chronic conditions, divided into three sample groups. The category "Scoring the intervening conditions towards care of the child with chronic condition" reveals that multiple events experienced by the family in the care of children with chronic conditions are determined by the relationships and interactions of family members and influence the forms of organization for the care of child. Highlights the importance of the nurse to know and understand the multiple family experiences in order to encompass child and their family members as care units.

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