This study aims at investigating the parent-adolescent communication of Finnish families from a multiinformant perspective. Thirteenand fourteen-year-old adolescents (n = 171) and their parents were asked to complete a questionnaire examining positive and problematic communication between the two parties. Information about their family structure was collected. The results indicated an interrela...

OBJECTIVE Characterize the process of family vegetable selection (especially cruciferous, deep orange, and dark green leafy vegetables); demonstrate the usefulness of Exchange Theory (how family norms and experiences interact with rewards and costs) for interpreting the data. DESIGN Eight focus groups, 2 with each segment (men/women vegetable likers/dislikers based on a screening form). Parti...

Background A child's hospitalization in intensive care units causes stress and worry in other family members. This study aimed to determine the effect of family presence during pediatric ICU bedside on family general health. Materials and Methods In this clinical trial study, 46 family members of the pediatrics hospitalized in the ICU in Teaching hospital affiliated with the Lorestan University...

In Canada, it has long been a given that physicians treat entire families. This notion is so deeply rooted in the culture of family medicine that it is part of the name of our discipline. The world in which we live has changed, however, and so have our patients and our discipline. It is high time that we asked ourselves whether a “family” practice is still a desirable practice. I will attempt t...

this research investigates the extent of intimacy among family members and the social elements effective on it. to start with, the intimacy has been defined on the basis of the present theoretical issues and its status among family members has been examined through some elements. accordingly, it has been studied some elements such as the self-reliance, satisfaction of the needs, coherence, as w...