Family Nursing Interventions: Mexican American Early Family Formation

Abstract

The purpose of this ethnographic study (based on Roy’s adaptation model) with 23 Mexican American families was to assess the similarity of nursing interventions that enhance family processes of nurturing, support, and socialization. The investigator sought to assess the similarity of nursing interventions to existing ways families were nurtured, supported, and socialized and to inquire whether young parents would be receptive to nurses intervening in their families. Parents rated 20 ways of offering nursing interventions according to dimensions of similarity and acceptability and then offered explanatory comments.