Family Health Conversations: How Do They Support Health?

Table 1

Characteristics of the families (𝑛=5).

Type of illness (𝑛)
Stroke	2
Parkinson’s disease	2
Dementia	1
Members participating in the conversations (𝑛)
Husband and wife	3
Husband, wife, and children	2
Time since onset of illness (months)	2–60
Family member with illness
Female (𝑛)	3
Male (𝑛)	2
Age (range)	40–65
Employed (𝑛)	5
Sick-leave (𝑛)	1
Retired (𝑛)	0
Other participating family members
Female (𝑛)	4
Male (𝑛)	5
Age (range)	7–65
Referral to FamHC (𝑛)
Self-referred	3
Participants in one research study	2