• 104-01 Focusing on Family Health: Developing the Family Resilience Assessment
  Presented by: Crystal Duncan Lane, Peggy Meszaros, Jyoti Savla
• (CANCELLED) 104-02 Coming All the Way Home: Integrative Community Care for Those Who Serve
  Presented by: Emily Cook, Joseph Bobrow, Carrie Knowles, Cassandra Vieten
• 104-03 Building a Rural CBPR Model for Preventing Adolescent Substance Use
  Presented by: Peggy Meszaros, Monica Kimbrell, Pam Kulbok, Donna Bond
• 104-04 Family Planning and Sexual Risk Among Mexican Immigrant Men by Fatherhood Status
  Presented by: Doris Cancel-Tirado

Abstracts

Focusing on Family Health: Developing the Family Resilience Assessment

Presented by: Crystal Duncan Lane, Peggy Meszaros, Jyoti Savla

Walsh's family resilience framework is proposed as a way to answer the need for understanding family health across the life cycle, including how families face illness. The aim of this study is to create a reliable and valid instrument that measures this framework with the initial sample being women with a history of breast cancer. The creation of the Family Resilience Assessment, its revision, and testing of emergent factors and model fit are addressed here. Results indicate excellent reliability and beginning validity. They also indicate that Walsh's framework is a valid method for conceiving of family resilience.  

Coming All the Way Home: Integrative Community Care for Those Who Serve

Presented by: Emily Cook, Joseph Bobrow, Carrie Knowles, Cassandra Vieten

This project describes the programming of Coming Home Project retreats designed to help those who served the nation's military to heal their unseen wounds of war. Retreats provide compassionate care, addressing the mental, emotional, spiritual, and relationship challenges that are experienced by those connected to military service. Program evaluation data assesses participation effects in several types of retreats for veterans, service members and their families, and professional service providers. Data analyses reveal statistically significant reductions in stress and isolation and improvements in relaxation and hope. Implications for the success of this type of innovative, resilience-based, community programming are discussed.

Building a Rural CBPR Model for Preventing Adolescent Substance Use

Presented by: Peggy Meszaros, Monica Kimbrell, Pam Kulbok, Donna Bond

Rural youth in tobacco-growing counties have the highest rates of tobacco use in the United States. Healthy People 2020 suggested the use of community-based participatory research (CBPR) to create innovative prevention programs and to increase their effectiveness and sustainability. The purpose of the study was to  establish a  community participatory research team (CPRT) in a rural tobacco-growing county in the southeast and work to develop a preventive intervention for adolescent substance use customized for the community.  A qualitative approach was used to conduct a comprehensive community assessment to design a prevention intervention model for replication in rural communities.

Family Planning and Sexual Risk Among Mexican Immigrant Men by Fatherhood Status

Presented by: Doris Cancel-Tirado

Mexican immigrant men face unique obstacles that put them at a higher risk for experiencing unintended pregnancies and contracting sexually transmitted infections (STIs). A qualitative study (N = 46) was conducted to understand and compare the family planning and sexual risk-taking experiences of these men and the role that contextual factors play. Limited and inadequate access to services, cultural factors and socio economic disadvantages influenced men’s attitudes, behaviors and services utilization. These men are exposing themselves and their partners to unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections. These findings have important implications for researchers, health care providers and policy makers.