A usually supportive primary person (family member, significant other, or close friend) provides insufficient, ineffective, or compromised support, comfort, assistance, or encouragement that may be needed by the client to manage or master adaptive tasks related to his or her health challenge
Client complaint about support person's response to health problem
Client reports concern about support person's response to health problem
Limitation in communication between support person and client
Protective behavior by support person incongruent with client's abilities
Protective behavior by support person incongruent with client's need for autonomy
Support person reports inadequate knowledge
Support person reports inadequate understanding
Support person reports preoccupation with own reaction to client's need
Support person withdraws from client
Unsatisfactory assistive behaviors of support person
Pathophysiologic
Related to impaired ability to fulfill role responsibilities secondary to:
Their acute or chronic illness
Situational (Personal, Environmental)
NANDA-I approved*
Related to coexisting situations affecting support person*
Related to depleted capacity of support person*
Related to family disorganization*
Related to inaccurate information presented by others*
Related to inadequate information available to support person*
Related to inadequate reciprocal support*
Related to inadequate support given by client to support person*
Related to inadequate understanding of information by support person*
Related to misunderstanding of information by support person*
Related to preoccupation by support person with concern outside of family*
Related to impaired ability to constructively manage stressors secondary to:
Substance abuse (e.g., alcoholism)
Negative role modeling
History of ineffective relationship with own parents
History of abusive relationship with parents
Related to unrealistic expectations of child by parent
Related to unrealistic expectations of parent by child
Related to unmet psychosocial needs of child by parent
Related to unmet psychosocial needs of parent by child
Related to marital stressors secondary to:
Financial difficulties
Separation
Infidelities
Problematic children
Problematic relatives
Families with member with altered family role
Families with support person experiencing depleted capacity due to prolonged disease
Families with support persons experiencing developmental crisis
Families with support persons experiencing situational crisis
AUTHOR'S NOTEThis nursing diagnosis describes situations similar to the diagnosis Interrupted Family Processes or Risk for Interrupted Family Processes. Until clinical research differentiates this diagnosis from other nursing diagnosis, use Interrupted Family Processes.