Individuals and Families

Primary Discussion Response is due by Friday (11:59:59pm Central), Peer Responses are due by Tuesday (11:59:59pm Central).

Either later in Week 2 or early in Week 3, you will be conducting your health assessment of your chosen family (once faculty has approved your chosen family and you have a completed list of questions). It is crucial that you prepare for your virtual encounter with the family. You are required to conduct an assessment of a family including health history, health lifestyle, and health risk for a child, an adult, and an older adult. Because you are not permitted to interact with any individuals younger than 18 years of age, you will need to retrieve all information about the child through the parent(s). The focus of the family assessment is health and wellness across the lifespan.

Please use the following resources as a foundation for your health and wellness assessment:

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
AAP Toolkits
For this Discussion Board, please develop 3 lists of questions based on the family you will assess. Each list should have 15 health assessment questions (45 questions total) to assess the health and wellness of the family (one for the child that is based on the age of the child, one for the adult, and one for the older adult). You will use these lists as the basis for the family assessment.

Some common health assessment questions ask about the following:

Tobacco use
Stress
Healthy eating
Physical activity
Sexual practices
Sedentary behaviors, such as sitting and watching TV or playing computer games
Alcohol usage
Addictive behaviors, such as gambling or drug use
Violence, bullying, or physical abuse
Depression or anxiety
Emotional and social support
Spiritual well-being
Safety issues, such as wearing a seat belt while driving, car seats, bike helmets, etc.
Overall health or well-being
Genetics
Sources of health risks for individuals can be based on genetics, environment, health behaviors, and social factors.

These are just a few examples. You will find many others contained within the posted resources above.

Responses to Other Students: Respond to at least 2 of your fellow classmates with at least a 100-word reply about their Primary Task Response regarding items you found to be compelling and enlightening. To help you with your discussion, please consider the following questions:

What did you learn from your classmate’s posting?
What additional questions do you have after reading the posting?
What clarification do you need regarding the posting?
What differences or similarities do you see between your posting and other classmates’ postings?
Discussion Board Rubric

For this week’s DB, you will be preparing your list of questions for each of the family members that you have identified for your IP Health and Wellness Assessment.

The list given in the Assignment Description provides many good options; however, when choosing your health assessment questions be mindful of the individual. Age is an obvious factor that will steer questioning; however, many other factors influence health and wellness such as: work history, family history, socio-economic status, educational level. Be thoughtful and try to tailor your questions to that particular person.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality link will take you to the AHRQ Health Assessment page. Here you will find resources for agenda setting, goal setting, and health literacy. The AAP link will take you to the American Academy of Pediatrics website. Here you can search for different types of “tool kits” to assist with your questions for your adolescent client.

You can use other resources as well. The AHRQ also has some sample health assessment questions for adults that can be found here. The HEADSS assessment is often used with adolescent and young adults (AYA); here is a link to the AAP website with the HEADSS assessment as well as delivering sexual health resources to this population.

References

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). (2013, September). Health assessments in primary care. Retrieved from https://www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/assessments/health-ap10.html

American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). Links to commonly used screening instruments and tools. AAP Toolkits. Retrieved from https://toolkits.solutions.aap.org/selfserve/ssPage.aspx?SelfServeContentId=screening_tools