Aging Families and Breast Cancer: Multi-generational Issues
Abstract
With the continuing shift of cancer care to community-based care the necessity to develop programs that 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 80 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 also participate in a focused interview. Activities for Year 2 have focused on the continuation of the data collection effort and preliminary analyses of the qualitative interviews. To date, 32 patient-daughter dyads have been accrued into the study. The activities initiated during Year 1 have continued through Year 2 and will be ongoing through Year 3. The data being collected is informing our understanding of the psychosocial impact of cancer on the family.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 2002
- Accession Number
- ADA408147
Entities
People
- Victoria H. Raveis
Organizations
- Columbia University