Therapeutic conversations intervention in pediatrics: are they of benefit for families of children with asthma?

• Published in: Nursing Clinics of North America
• Main Authors: Sigurdardottir, Anna Olafia, Svavarsdottir, Erla Kolbrun, Rayens, Mary Kay, Adkins, Sarah
• Other Authors: Landspitali, IS-101 Reykjavik, Iceland Univ Iceland, Fac Nursing, Sch Hlth Sci, Reykjavik, Iceland Univ Kentucky, Coll Nursing, Lexington, KY USA Univ Kentucky, Coll Publ Hlth, Lexington, KY USA Eastern Kentucky Univ, Coll Justice & Safety, Richmond, KY 40475 USA
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Science 2014
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Asthma; Child; Preschool; Directive Counseling; Family Nursing; Family Relations; Fathers; Female; Humans; Iceland; Male; Middle Aged; Mothers; Quality of Life; Social Support
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2336/317151; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cnur.2013.01.007

To access publisher's full text version of this article. Please click on the hyperlink in Additional Links field. This article reports a quasiexperimental family level intervention study to measure effectiveness of a theory-based family therapeutic conversation intervention (FAM-TC) for families of children with asthma on perceived family support and asthma-related quality of life (QOL). Perceived family support increased significantly for mothers in the experimental group. The children of the parents in the experimental group reported significantly lower problems with asthma treatment on the treatment problems subscale of the asthma QOL scale after the intervention. These results highlight the benefit of therapeutic conversations for families of children and adolescent with asthma to support or enhance QOL. Research Fund of Ingibjorg R. Magnusdottir Research Fund at LUH Scientific Fund of Icelandic Nurses Association