Madridge Journal of Nursing

ISSN: 2638-1605

International Nursing Conference
December 5-7, 2016 | Dubai, UAE

Developing multiple program for promoting family health with a vulnerable child

Jih-Yuan Chen1*, Ming-Hong Yen1, Ying-Huey Lin2, Shu-Hui Hu1, Hong-Sen Chen1,2, Meng-Chi Liu2, Me-Chyn Chao1,2 and Wen-Ling Chen2

1Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan
2Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Taiwan

DOI: 10.18689/2638-1605.a1.002

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Vulnerable children in this study included the disabled children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD)/spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), or chromosome abnormality. The vulnerable situations exhibited relatively disability/worse health problemand caused problems regarding familiesʼ health issues and general dysfunctional family support. Policy programs for the vulnerable could be created and changed as depending that influenced familiesʼ perception of their health and family support. Therefore, empirical evidence to guide health professional to provide family health promotion that included five previous studies to determined relationship between familiesʼ perception of health andsupport, predictors of family function, the demographic predictors of lower health promotion lifestyles scores, to test the family health promotion model and the model of family resource and health perspective of children. In addition, after reestablished measurement tools for evaluating of promoting family health program. The purpose of the study were to rechecked to compare the differences of family health needs, health capacities, health behaviors and health status amongfamily members and the difference disease groups. As well as analyzing the predictors influence on previous variables. Measurement tools included health needs assessment, family health behaviors, family health capacities, and family adaptation and coherence measurement, family health status, and family structural analysis. First, randomly selected 180 families, including 59 of DMD/SMA, 76 of ADHD, and 45 of Turner syndrome familysubjects from 286 families that had been recruited in constructing of the model of family health promotion. There were no significant differences of different family variables among the different disease types and different family members. Analysis data with combined these disease groups of 180, the results presented: family monthly income was the predictor of influencing on family hardiness, family behaviors, family general function, and duke health assessment. Family monthly income and power to propose an idea/suggest were the factors influenced on general family function through family hardiness and family support. Data from these previous families randomly selectedwho agreed to participate health promotion programs of 91 for the proposed study. The results presented significant differences among four clinics/setting for the subscales of anxiety, anxiety-depression, and resolve, and the health concept practice, especially in lower score of health concept practice of ADHD group than the chromosome abnormality group. Multiple discipline professional design family health promotion with nature-based and socio-ecological model of health promotionto decrease of anxiety and depression and increase of resolve ability.

Biography:
Jih-Yuan Chen completed her PhD in Nursing at University of San Diego, USA. She has been an Associate Professor at Kaohsiung Medical University, School of Nursing, since 1984. She has presented papers at international conference and published more than 49 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute and several journalsʼ member of reviewer. She focused on the concept of family health promotion from several different perspective, like family hardiness, family support, family health, family resilience (family function), family health lifestyles in families of children with vulnerability, role strain and morale, model testing, developing of Instrument.