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Family Health Conversations: How Do They Support Health?

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  • Carina Persson
  • Eva Benzein

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Research shows that living with illness can be a distressing experience for the family and may result in suffering and reduced health. To meet families’ needs, family systems intervention models are developed and employed in clinical contexts. For successful refinement and implementation it is important to understand how these models work. The aim of this study was therefore to describe the dialogue process and possible working mechanisms of one systems nursing intervention model, the Family Health Conversation model. A descriptive evaluation design was applied and 15 transcribed conversations with five families were analyzed within a hermeneutic tradition. Two types of interrelated dialogue events were identified: narrating and exploring. There was a flow between these events, a movement that was generated by the interaction between the participants. Our theoretically grounded interpretation showed that narrating, listening, and reconsidering in interaction may be understood as supporting family health by offering the families the opportunity to constitute self-identity and identity within the family, increasing the families’ understanding of multiple ways of being and acting, to see new possibilities and to develop meaning and hope. Results from this study may hopefully contribute to the successful implementation of family systems interventions in education and clinical praxis.

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  • Carina Persson & Eva Benzein, 2014. "Family Health Conversations: How Do They Support Health?," Nursing Research and Practice, Hindawi, vol. 2014, pages 1-11, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:hin:jnlnrp:547160
    DOI: 10.1155/2014/547160
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    1. Birte Østergaard & Anne M. Clausen & Hanne Agerskov & Anne Brødsgaard & Karin B. Dieperink & Karen F. Funderskov & Dorthe Nielsen & Anne D. Sorknæs & Barbara Voltelen & Hanne Konradsen, 2020. "Nurses' attitudes regarding the importance of families in nursing care: A cross‐sectional study," Journal of Clinical Nursing, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 29(7-8), pages 1290-1301, April.
    2. Inge Faarup & Jørgen T. Lauridsen & Karin Lütgen & Anni Nørregaard & Frantz Rom Poulsen & Birte Østergaard, 2019. "Do family health conversations impact patients with glioblastoma multiforme and their family members?," Journal of Clinical Nursing, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 28(9-10), pages 1695-1707, May.
    3. Susanna Pusa & Åsa Dorell & Christen Erlingsson & Helena Antonsson & Margareta Brännström & Karin Sundin, 2019. "Nurses’ perceptions about a web‐based learning intervention concerning supportive family conversations in home health care," Journal of Clinical Nursing, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 28(7-8), pages 1314-1326, April.
    4. Liselott Årestedt & Carina Persson & Margareta Rämgård & Eva Benzein, 2018. "Experiences of encounters with healthcare professionals through the lenses of families living with chronic illness," Journal of Clinical Nursing, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 27(3-4), pages 836-847, February.
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