title: The relationship between family function and women's well-being.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Health measurement is one of the major challenges in today's researches. Various indicators including well-being are used to evaluate health. Many factors including culture, structures, and values can be effective on family health, quality of life, and well-being of family members that these elements themselves are effective on the whole society's health. One of other effective factors on these indicators is family function.
  
  
  METHODS
  The data collecting tools included Bloom's Family Function questionnaire and well-being questionnaire, whose validity and reliability have been already confirmed. This study is a cross-sectional, descriptive, and analytical study carried out on 300 subjects in Isfahan in 2011. The inclusion criteria were the families residing in Isfahan for more than 1 year and the women who were willing to cooperate with the project. Sampling method was in the form of cluster. Isfahan has 13 clusters of which 50% (6 clusters) were randomly chosen. Fifty samples were chosen systematically on the basis of the sample volume (300 samples). The selection of the first sample was based on random numbers table and the next samples on the basis of K (the families lies numbers/K = 50).
  
  
  RESULTS
  The sample's mean age was 45 (4.3) years, well-being dependent variable mean was 23.6, and family function variable mean was obtained as 183.6 by ANOVA. Well-being was better in families with higher function, compared to the other groups, but no significant difference was observed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Family function has direct and indirect effect on quality of life and well-being. It should be considered as a social determinant of health to improve well-being in family as a part of community.
authors: Associate Professor of Community Medicine, Community Medicine Department, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
authors: Ziba
authors: Z
authors: Farajzadegan
authors: Pooya
authors: P
authors: Koosha
authors: Ghazaleh Jamalipour
authors: GJ
authors: Sufi
authors: Mahrokh
authors: M
authors: Keshvari
keywords: Family nursing; Iran; questionnaire; well-being
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