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Family Measures Project

Greetings from the Family Measures Subcommittee of the IFNA Research Committee.

We are pleased to announce a new resource, the Family Measures Project, that we think many of you will find very helpful. The main goal of this project is to give IFNA members access to up-to-date information about select family measures. 

To date, we have collected information on 14 family measures commonly used by IFNA members. While the amount of available information varies from one measure to the next, we have collected key information such as: 1)citation for the original article describing how the measure was developed and tested, 2) link to the website which shows how to obtain measure (if available), 3) purpose of the measure, 4) psychometrics, 5) scoring procedures, 6) norms/comparative data, 7) populations the measure has been used with, 8) languages the measure is available in, 9) strengths and limitations that have been identified for the measure, and 10) a reference list of studies in which the measure was used.

When you go to the link: IFNA 2023 Family Measures Project – International Family Nursing Association, you will find an overview of this project and a document for each of the 14 measures that includes the names of the IFNA members who collected the information. If you are interested in helping to collect information on other family measures for this project please contact Marcia Van Riper [email protected].

 

Dr. Intima Alrimawi Focuses on Child Protection and Improving Health Outcomes for Families Experiencing Higher Rates of Health Disparities

Intima Alrimawi, PhD, MSN, MPH, is an Associate Professor of Nursing at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, USA. She has more than eight years of experience in nursing education and 17 years of experience as a registered nurse working with children and in the public health sector. Her research focuses on underserved populations, including children, families, and low-income communities. She has a specific emphasis on child protection and improving health outcomes for low-income families and racial and ethnic groups that experience higher rates of health disparities. Her master’s research focused on improving nursing competency in detecting and reporting cases of child abuse, and her doctoral and postdoctoral research focused on home injury prevention in young children. Additionally, Dr. Alrimawi’s research focuses on childhood obesity and chronic and terminal diseases in children. Such research is needed to address health inequalities and to develop nursing skills in this context. She also aims to develop health policy and improve healthcare quality in these areas. Her secondary research interest is in nursing education, and she aims to promote optimal outcomes in nursing education.
 
Dr. Alrimawi has received numerous awards for her work, including the 2018 Virginia Nurses Foundation 40 Under 40 Award for the Outstanding Emerging Nurse. In 2022, she received the Highly Recommended Designation-Pittu Laungani Award for one of her papers that was published in the International Journal of Health Promotion and Education. She also received the Excellence in Education Award from Sigma Epsilon Zeta Chapter in 2023. 
 
For further information, please contact Dr. Alrimawi at [email protected] 

Dr. Rosemary Eustace Focuses on Breast Health Awareness, Education, and Early Detection

Dr. Rosemary Eustace

Dr. Rosemary Eustace is a Professor at Wright State University, USA. Her current research focuses on breast health awareness, education, and early detection. She works primarily with a population of rural women in midlife and their significant others in Tanzania, a low-income country in Sub-Saharan Africa. Her research also involves community health workers and primary care health care providers. Data is collected through an investigator-developed critical informant interview guide and a focus group discussion guide that explores the prospective feasibility and acceptability of a community health worker-led couple-based breast health awareness and early breast cancer detection program. Through this work, Dr. Eustace and her team seek to develop a multi-level breast health awareness and early detection program that will contribute towards Tanzania’s community health strategies for breast cancer prevention.  

To achieve this important work, Dr. Eustace collaborates with Dr. Tumaini Nyamhanga from the School of Public Health at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) (https://muhas.ac.tz/). To support her ability to undertake this research, Dr. Eustace and Dr. Nyamhanga completed the competitive National Cancer Institute Multilevel Intervention Training Institute (https://healthcaredelivery.cancer.gov/mlti/) and the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (https://www.iie.org/programs/carnegie-african-diaspora-fellowship-program/).  

As a nurse educator, Dr Eustace has been recognized for Innovation in Teaching Award for Family Science (https://cognella.com/blog/2019/11/21/three-instructors-honored-with-cognella-innovation-in-teaching-awards-for-family-science/). In addition, she is also part of a team of Wright State University nurse educators participating in the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) Pilot School initiative on Competency-Based Education for Practice-Ready Nurse Graduates (https://vocalvideo.com/v/aacn-essentials-anf-wright-state-university).

Dr. Eustace has also led Global Health Learning study abroad trips to Tanzania since 2012.

 
The Facebook link below is for the Global Health Learning Study Abroad work that Dr. Eustace created with the purpose of sharing updates with students and their families. 

For further information, please contact Dr. Eustace:  [email protected].

 

Dr. Barbara Giambra Advances Knowledge About Caregiver-Clinician Communication and the Effects on Child and Family Outcomes

Dr. Barbara Giambra, PhD, APRN, CPNP-PC, is an Assistant Professor at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati (USA). Dr. Giambra studies the effects of communication between healthcare providers and the families of children with complex chronic conditions. Dr. Giambra seeks to understand the effects of caregiver-clinician communication on family management and child and family outcomes, and ways to modify communication behaviors to enhance outcomes. Through this work, Dr. Giambra has developed the Theory of Shared Communication and has utilized several instruments, including the Family Management Measure (FaMM), Parent Perception of Uncertainty Scale (PPUS), PedsQL, PROMIS 25, PROMIS Global Health and the Global Family Quality of Life Scale. Dr. Giambra was awarded a K23 grant from the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2018.

For more information, contact IFNA member Barbara Giambra.

Twitter: @BKGiambra

Linked-In: Barbara Giambra

Dr. Theresa Ryan Schultz Focuses on the Intersection Between Youth who Identify as LGBTQ+ and Emergency Care for Suicidality

Theresa Ryan Schultz, PhD, MBA, RN, NEA-BC, is the Director of Emergency Medicine and Trauma Center Nursing at Children’s National Hospital and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Science in Washington, D.C., USA. Dr. Schultz’s research focuses on the intersection between youth who identify as LGBTQ+ and emergency care for suicidality. Through this research, she and her team seek to understand psychological safety from the emic perspective of the patient in the clinical setting.
 
Dr. Schultz is a widely recognized and honored scholar. Recently, in 2022, Dr. Schultz’s Emergency Department Psychiatry Team was awarded the Children’s National Hospital Core Values Award. In 2021, she received the Washington Post/American Nurses Association Star Nurse award. And in 2019 she and her team received the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) DAISY Honorable Mention for exemplary work at Children’s National Hospital in improving patient and workforce safety by meeting the mental health needs of pediatric patients in the Emergency Departments. These efforts directly align with Dr. Schultz’s research. For more information about Dr. Schultz’s work, contact her at [email protected].
 
Twitter: @TRS1375
 
 
 
 

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