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2003 APR 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers study mother-child relationships within the cancer experience.
"The demands and uncertainties associated with adjustments to chronic illness present challenges to maintaining a stable family life. Little has been reported about mother - child relationships within the cancer experience and even less about interventions that may be useful to help these dyads maintain stability," researchers in the United States report.
"The focus of this article is a pilot study of an intervention addressing the mother - child relationship of women with breast cancer and their school-aged children. A part of the data collection comprised interviews of mothers and fathers to assess their perceptions of the influence of the intervention on the quality of the mother - child relationships after the program," wrote S.E.D. Kirsch and colleagues, University of Washington School Nursing.
The researchers concluded: "Using inductive content analysis, the fathers' and mothers' data were organized into categories, domains, and an explanatory construct, ...