Quantitative study reveals high rates of family dysfunction in adolescents, suggesting necessary nursing interventions.
Family functionality is a set of interpersonal relationships of the adolescent, who need emotional stability and an emotional environment in which they can safely explore an unknown world, therefore, the research objective is to determine family functionality and nursing intervention in adolescents from an educational institution in an area of Lima. It is a quantitative-descriptive, cross-sectional study, with a total population of 571 participants who answered a sociodemographic data questionnaire and the family APGAR instrument. In the results, 303 (53.1%) of adolescents have severe family dysfunction, 155 (27.1%) moderate, 5 (0.9%) mild and 108 (18.9%) good family function. It is concluded that family interventions should be carried out to allow family unity and thus improve the psychoaffective health of the adolescent.
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