participants scored over 71, indicating better health; 13.1%scored under 50, indicating dysfunctional health; 8.2% scoredeither over 58.3, indicating anxiety (mean = 35.31, SD =17.70), or over 60, indicating depression (mean = 37.62, SD =19.75); and 9.8% of participants scored over 57.1, indicating anxietyYdepression (mean = 35.83, SD = 18.44).The average FAPGAR score was 6.21, with 46.3% of participants scoring higher than 6, the cutoff for greater familysupport. The average family hardiness rating was 40.29, with48.4% of participants indicating high levels of hardiness atscores above 40 and 9% indicating low levels of hardiness atscores below 30. The average family functioning rating was2.13, with 9% of participants scoring higher than 2.52 onthis measure indicating family dysfunction, whereas 48.2%scored lower than 2.12 indicating effective family functioning.Relationships Among Study VariablesPearson product correlations indicated an association betweenlow level of family function with, respectively, marital relationship (r = j.385, p = .02) and satisfaction with medicalcare (r = j.235, p = .05). A good marital relationship andgreater satisfaction with medical care were both associatedwith better family function (Table 3).