Aging Families and Breast Cancer: Multigenerational Issues
Abstract
With the continuing shift of cancer care to community-based care the necessity to develop programs that will enable the family to meet patients' needs for support and assistance is of paramount importance. The overall purpose in conducting this exploratory investigation is to obtain information that will: identify adult daughter caregivers in need of psychosocial support interventions to enable them to meet their mothers' needs for illness-related emotional support and assistance; reduce daughters' emotional stresses associated with this support role, and, enable the daughters to continue their caregiving role, To accomplish these objectives we are collecting data from a sample of BC older women (aged 60+) receiving treatment for breast cancer and their adult caregiving daughters. The patients and their daughters each complete a questionnaire. The daughters will also participate in a focused interview. Activities for Year 1 have focused on project start-up tasks, the initiation of the data collection effort and the establishment and implementation of data management procedures. To date, fifteen patient-daughter dyads have been accrued into the study. The activities initiated during Year 1 will be ongoing throughout Years 2 and 3. The data being collected will inform our understanding of psychosocial impact of cancer on the family.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 2001
- Accession Number
- ADA396653
Entities
People
- Victoria H. Raveis
Organizations
- Columbia University