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The central aim of this article is to examine the evidence that family interventions improve health in persons with chronic illness and their family members, across the life span. The review focuses on recent meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials of family intervention research. In adults, evidence supports the salutary effects of family interventions versus usual medical care for patient health and mental health, and for family member health. In children, robust evidence supports family-based multimodal interventions for obesity treatment. Reasonable evidence supports family approaches to type 1 diabetes treatment in children. Nurses led the research or were members of interdisciplinary research teams in several of these literatures, representing one quarter to one third of the research cited, but were absent in other literatures, such as family treatment of childhood obesity.

Families living with a member who has a chronic illness vacillate between hope and despair, suffering and possibility. How this living "between" evolves in families and how family relations are affected has received insufficient attention. As nurses we can learn families' experiences of suffering and situated possibility through family narratives about and reflections on the everyday. Articulating this experience in thick, alive, complex, and practical texts promises to enhance our understanding, our practice with families, and our own lived possibilities.

Hermeneutic phenomenology is offered as an approach to study families that enables the study of phenomena that are difficult to address using a science based in rationalism or empiricism: shared family meanings and family concerns. Heideggerian concepts that serve as the foundation of a hermeneutic phenomenology offamilies are that humans are situated in their worlds, constituted by their worlds, engaged in everyday activity, and moved by their concerns in day-to-day life. Each concept is discussed in terms of how it affects the hermeneutic phenomenological study of thefamily and structures the relationship of the researcher to the project.

Confucianism is the central philosophic background for much of the culture in East Asia (EA), particularly for understanding family and social context. The purpose of this article is to examine more fully Confucianism as a conceptual framework for understanding EA family processes and health practices. Confucianism stresses the traditional boundaries of ethical responsibility and the ideal of good human life as a whole. Embedded within Confucian values are five principal relationships, through which each person defines a sense of identity, duty, and responsibility. Current studies of EA families that consider Confucianism as a theoretical base focus almost exclusively on filial piety and collectivism. Focusing only on these two aspects prevents scholars from exploring more complex interpretations of EA family life. A broader inclusion of multiple concepts from Confucianism can provide guidance in exploring the complex and multidimensional aspects of EA family life and allow for broader articulation of family processes.

The goal of this interpretive phenomenological study is to describe and understand significant habits and practices developed by families bereaved from the sudden and unexpected loss of their children. Data were primarily collected through the interviewing of 15 family members in seven families. At least four interviews were conducted with each family. Family members were interviewed both together and separately. The analysis of the data illuminated the development of significant and meaningful family practices. These practices acknowledged the death of the children, integrated their loss into the everyday lives of these families, allowed for continuing connection, and were of utter importance as they contributed to family healing.

To discover the underlying understandings that organize how low‐income Latino and African American parents of infants and toddlers with severe persistent asthma manage symptoms in their children, 11 families with children 12–48 months old and recently hospitalized with asthma were interviewed over 3–6 months. Interpretive phenomenology was used to analyze parents' narratives about everyday asthma management practices. Four different family management styles were discovered: determined, discontinuous, flexible, and disrupted. Each arose from parents' particular understandings of asthma and asthma management. Attention to illness meaning and individually developed management plans would improve the family management of asthma in these high‐risk families.

The aim of this article is to review the methods, innovations, and dilemmas reported in nursing research on chronic illness with ethnically diverse families. Articles published by nurse researchers were systematically searched using Medline, CINAHL, and PsychINFO for the years 1990 to 2000, with follow-up to methodological articles. Research was selected if it sampled families from diverse ethnicities living in the United States and employed family conceptualizations or measures. Four classes of research were identified that (a) examine the appropriateness of various research instruments for use with ethnically diverse families; (b) examine families of varied ethnicities, but report what is common, rather than unique to each ethnic group; (c) examine family processes in a single diverse ethnic group; and (d) compare family processes in at least two ethnic groups. Methodological recommendations for future research are offered.

<p class="Pa7"><strong>Background: </strong>Filipino Americans have the highest risk for obesity-related type 2 dia­betes and related complications compared with all major Asian American subgroups. Identifying effective interventions to im­prove Filipino health outcomes are needed to reduce this health disparity.</p><p class="Pa7"><strong>Objective: </strong>To assess the acceptability and cultural relevance of the PilAm Go4Health program - a culturally adapted mobile health weight-loss lifestyle intervention in­cluding virtual social networking for Filipino Americans with type 2 diabetes.</p><p class="Pa7"><strong>Design, Setting, Participants: </strong>Qualitative semi-structured post-program interviews ex­plored perceptions of 45 Filipino Americans with type 2 diabetes in Northern California regarding their perceptions of the accept­ability and cultural relevance of PilAm Go­4Health. Participants' mean age was 57.6 years. Sixty-seven interviews were recorded, transcribed, and thematically analyzed by four independent coders.</p><p class="Pa7"><strong>Results: </strong>Over half (n=26, 57.8%) of the respondents found that a culturally tailored intervention program enhanced their engagement. All (n=45) of the respon­dents felt that mobile health technology promoted their self-efficacy. A majority of the respondents (n=29, 64.4%) expressed that they progressed from despair to self-efficacy as a result of their participation in the intervention. More than one-fourth of the participants (n=13, 28.8%) discussed that the intervention needed further cultural tailoring.</p><p class="Default"><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Overall, PilAm Go4Health — a mobile health weight-loss lifestyle in­tervention — was acceptable and culturally relevant for Filipino Americans with type 2 diabetes. Findings may help inform clinician and researchers on effective intervention strategies for diabetes self-management when designing interventions for diverse populations.</p><p class="Default"><em>Ethn Dis. </em>2017;27(2):143-154; doi:10.18865/ed.27.2.143.</p>