The Science of Family Nursing—Advancing Health Across Contexts
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 9 January 2027 | Viewed by 31
Special Issue Editor
Interests: nursing; family nursing; child health care nursing; health care
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Dear Colleagues,
Family nursing is an academic field that focuses on the entire family, rather than on individual family members, to provide comprehensive support for family well-being, which also affects the health and quality of life of each individual family member. Families are dynamically changing, influenced by multiple factors, including health and illness experiences, socioeconomic conditions, and cultural background, thereby making the role of family nursing even more important. In order to address the increasing diversity of families and the complexity of care environments, further development of family nursing research and systematic accumulation of evidence are essential.
I am pleased to invite you to provide researchers and clinicians with evidence for family nursing aimed at achieving the well-being of the entire family, family nursing theory that supports family nursing, and practical research on family assessment and family intervention. This would also include research on the health of family members within the family context. Because families are influenced by the culture of their country or region, family nursing research that takes into account cultural context is especially welcome.
This Special Issue aims to promote the further development of family nursing by bringing together research that focuses on the entire family. This issue plans to feature a wide range of academic findings related to family-related nursing research, practice, education, and policy issues.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Studies on nursing interventions for families.
- Studies on the construction, verification, and development of family nursing theory.
- Systematic reviews and meta-analyses of family nursing research.
- Family nursing research that takes into consideration cultural diversity.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Prof. Dr. Naohiro Hohashi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- family nursing
- family support
- family nursing theory
- family function
- family relations
- family assessment
- family intervention
- transcultural family nursing
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