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Families and Health SIG For children, as well as for partners and family members with chronic, and perhaps acute, illnesses, families may play an essential role in supporting or inhibiting healthy behaviors. Understanding how families’ roles change during the lifetime of our patients, and the roles families play in maintaining and transmitting healthy (or risky) health behaviors is of paramount interest to this SIG. Part of the agenda for the Families and Health SIG would be to review the existing literature on the relationship between families and health, develop a conceptual framework that is not disease specific, and develop and promote a research agenda that would address and refine the conceptual framework developed by the SIG. A very preliminary conceptual framework, developed by Arthur E. Blank and Maria Baquero is attached. (See Figure 1) If there is sufficient interest, and collaborators, preliminary papers could come out of the SIG’s literature review that would in turn suggest how this SIG could evolve. If you are interested in this effort let Arthur E. Blank, PhD, the SIG’s chair, know. Thanks. Arthur E. Blank, Ph.D.
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