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Mothers with breast cancer and their adult daughters: the relationship between mothers' reaction to breast cancer and their daughters' emotional and neuroimmune status.

OBJECTIVES: The objectives of this study were to assess the associations between psychologic distress of patients with breast cancer and of their adult daughters; and to assess the associations between mothers' psychologic distress and daughters' psychologic distress, stress hormone levels, natural cytotoxic activity (NCA), and Th1 cytokine secretion. METHODS: Eighty mothers with breast cancer and 80 adult daughters participated in the study. They completed the Symptom Check List (SCL-90R) questionnaire. In addition, daughters completed a set of questions on their health status and habits and on the effects of their mothers' disease on their own lives. Thirty milliliters of heparinized venous blood and a first early-morning urine sample were collected from daughters between 8:00 and 9:00 am. Spontaneous and interleukin-2 (IL-2)-induced NCA, in vitro IL-2 and IL-12 secretion, and levels of plasma cortisol and urinary catecholamines were tested in daughters. Forty-seven healthy women, age- and education- matched to daughters, completed the psychologic, immunologic, and hormonal tests, and served as a control group. RESULTS: Psychologic distress of mothers and daughters was highly correlated. However, mothers experienced a higher level of distress than daughters. Mothers with advanced disease and their daughters were more distressed than mothers with primary disease and their daughters. Daughters' distress was also related to their subjective caregiving burden and the frequency of meetings with mothers. Higher distressed daughters had lower IL-2-induced NCA and decreased in vitro IL-2 and IL-12 secretion. Norepinephrine secretion level mediated the relationship between daughters' level of distress and their immune functions. Cortisol mediated only the relationship between daughters' distress and IL-2 secretion. CONCLUSIONS: This initial study shows that the psychologic distress of mothers with breast cancer and that of their adult daughters are similar. Stress hormone secretions and immune functions of daughters are related to both their own and their mothers' psychologic distress.

Adult↗
PubMed1987

Fathers and daughters: their relationship and personality characteristics associated with the daughter's smoking behavior.

This study examined the interrelationships of domains (i.e., sets) of paternal personality and father-daughter relationship variables and daughter characteristics and their impact on the daughter's smoking. In addition, the interactive effects of individual father and daughter variables on the daughter's smoking were studied. Female college student volunteers (N = 403) and their fathers were given closed-ended questionnaires that included a number of scales assessing father and daughter characteristics. Results indicated that the domains of father and daughter variables each had a direct impact on the daughter's smoking (an independent model). Interactive findings revealed that daughter protective factors (those conducive to her not smoking) could offset the negative impact of paternal risk factors (those conducive to her smoking), and that, to a lesser extent, daughter protective factors further enhanced the positive effect of father protective variables.

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Mother-daughter identification: Polish and Polish-American mothers and their adult daughters.

Toward the goal of furthering our understanding of the mother-daughter relationship, we investigated one aspect of the mother-daughter relationship, the mutual identification that occurs within it. Mutual identification was defined as the process by which a mother and her daughter internalize characteristics of each other. A convenience sample of 81 Polish and 81 Polish-American mother-daughter dyads was studied. Mother-daughter identification was measured using a semantic differential (SD) scale that included 12 concepts. Analyses using paired t tests revealed that there was no significant difference between the ratings of the Polish-American mothers and those of their daughters on 7 of the 12 concepts and no significant difference between the ratings of the Polish mothers and those of their daughters on 10 of the 12. There were, however, statistically significant differences between the Polish and Polish-American women's ratings of the concepts. These data are interpreted as support for the theory of mother-daughter identification.

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Daughters increase longevity of fathers, but daughters and sons equally reduce longevity of mothers.

Reproduction is energetically and physiologically expensive, and an individual investing resources into producing offspring should suffer costs such as deterioration in health condition and possibly shorter life span. Since the energetic and nutritional demands of pregnancy and breastfeeding render reproductive costs much higher in women than in men, women with a large number of children should show signs of deterioration in condition, while men with large families should not. However, whether reproductive costs reduce longevity in women is still questionable, and in men this issue has not been adequately addressed. In addition, since sons are energetically more expensive to produce than daughters, having sons should have a more pronounced negative impact on maternal longevity than having daughters. Here we document a striking disparity in the impact of children on the life span of mothers and fathers in a Polish rural population. We show for the first time that number of daughters was positively related to a longer life span of their fathers, increasing their longevity on average by 74 weeks per daughter born, while number of sons did not have a significant effect on paternal longevity. In contrast, in women, the number of daughters and number of sons reduced maternal longevity and did so to the same extent, on average by 95 weeks per son or daughter, indicating that for women, the costs of having sons and daughters are similar.

Adolescent↗
PubMed2004

'Alukura ... for my daughters and their daughters and their daughters'. A review of Congress Alukura.

OBJECTIVE: To describe the process, findings and limitations of a review of Congress Alukura commissioned in 1998. METHODS: Analysis of documents and reports, service use and perinatal data from Alukura and the Northern Territory Midwives Collection; interviews with staff of Congress Alukura, of Central Australian Aboriginal Congress, of Aboriginal community organisations in Alice Springs and remote communities, of health care providers and other key informants in Alice Springs; community consultations through women's meetings or group discussions in local and remote communities. Interviews were coded for thematic and content analysis. RESULTS: Client visits increased by 42% from 1995/96 (2130) to 1997/98. The proportion of women having a first trimester antenatal visit increased from 23% (1986-88) to 38% (1993-95). Mean birthweight of Aboriginal infants in the Alice Springs urban area was 3168 g in 1986-90, 3271 g in 1991-95, and 3268 g in 1996-99. Other primary and maternity care providers perceived the quality of care to be high and saw Alukura playing a key role through transport, liaison, screening and follow-up. Alukura was much less successful in its role as a place for birth. Expectations of additional outreach by local and remote communities were high. DISCUSSION: The review's limitations included: a lack of direct input from young women, the main users of Alukura; a timeframe that precluded the detailed discussion necessary for seeking access to medical records, and the need for interpreters in community settings. Current and former staff who participated in the review often had other important community roles. Developments since the review are discussed briefly.

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PubMed2005

Conflict sources and responses in mother-daughter relationships: perspectives of adult daughters of aging immigrant women.

Mother-daughter conflict sources and responses among immigrant families are not well understood. In the research reported here, in-depth interview data about conflict were collected from 11 adult daughters of Japanese immigrant mothers. Conflict sources were mothers' unsolicited advice, daughters and mothers not living up to expectations of the other, and daughters' independence of mothers. Responses to conflict included voicing concerns, displaying loyalty, and utilizing the assistance of family. Comparisons between immigrant and nonimmigrant mother-daughter dyads' conflict experiences are discussed, and suggestions for future research on mother-daughter conflict within the immigrant context are provided.

Adult↗
PubMed1998

Transduction of recombinant human erythropoietin receptor cDNA into daughter progenitors derived from single CD34(3+) cord blood cells changes the differentiation profile of daughter progenitors.

In this study, we tested the capacity to change the differentiation profile of progenitor cells by retroviral-mediated transduction of EpoR cDNA into one of the paired daughter cells derived from single CD34(3+) CB cells. Our results show that for the non-viral-treated daughter cells, the majority (99.6%) formed the same colony type. However, with cells transduced with viral vectors, 7.1% of the daughter cells transduced with the EpoR cDNA formed either a burst forming unit-erythroid (BFU-E) or a colony-forming unit-granulocyte, macrophage, erythroid, megakaryocyte (CFU-GEMM) colony compared to the other daughter cell transduced with viral supernatant lacking EpoR cDNA, which formed either a colony-forming unit granulocyte-macrophage (CFU-GM) or a high proliferative potential-colony forming cell (HPP-CFC) colony. Expression of the transduced EpoR cDNA was confirmed in individual colonies by RT-PCR analysis. These results substantiate in a more rigorous fashion our previous results that it is possible to change the Epo-responsive differentiation profile of progenitor cells by transduction into these cells of an EpoR cDNA and this change was apparent only in daughter cells derived from single CD34(3+) kit+ cells transduced with EpoR cDNA.

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PubMed1992

Psychological functioning of daughters of breast cancer patients. Part II: Characterizing the distressed daughter of the breast cancer patient.

Sixty daughters whose mothers had breast cancer were cross-sectionally studied. Daughters age 11-20 reported feeling significantly more uncomfortable about involvement in their mothers' illness than daughters age 20+. Daughters whose mothers died were more likely to report long-term life plan changes and role changes with their mothers during the mothers' illness. The Global Symptom Index was predicted by the daughter's perceived degree of involvement with her mother (during her mother's illness), current emotional resolution (about her mother's illness), and sexual satisfaction. Sexual satisfaction was predicted by role changes during the mother's illness, frequency of sexual relations, and a depression scale.

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[Effectiveness of evaluating bulls according to their progeny by the "daughters-mothers" and "daughters-peers" methods].

The repeatability coefficient of sire evaluation by daughters performance in different lactations was 0.38-0.70, that suggests the necessity to specify annually the previous sire evaluation on receiving new daughters performance data. When using the "daughters-mothers" method the repeatability coefficients of sire evaluation by dairy indexes, milk fat content and total milk fat production (0.41, 0.52 and 0.45 respectively) were significantly higher than those obtained by the "daughters-herdmates" method (0.25, 0.30 and 0.28 respectively). Thus, sire progeny testing evaluation should be carried out simultaneously by both methods. Nevertheless, the "daughters-mothers" method is preferable.

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Cultural and noncultural predictors of health outcomes in Korean daughter and daughter-in-law caregivers.

In Western cultures, adverse health effects resulting from providing care for impaired elders is well documented for family caregivers, but little is known about the health of Korean caregivers. This study examined the level of depression and physical health of 120 daughter and daughter-in-law caregivers who cared for cognitively or functionally impaired elderly in Korea. It was hypothesized that cultural factors would have a greater effect on caregivers' health outcomes than noncultural factors, but, contrary to this expectation, the effects of noncultural factors were found to outweigh those of cultural factors. Moreover, the caregivers in this study reported a relatively high level of depression, and more caregivers rated their own health as "poor" than did Western caregivers in previous studies. Family caregiving for the impaired elderly is stressful and negatively affects Korean caregivers' health outcomes regardless of societal values such as filial piety and familism regarding parent care in Korea. Culturally acceptable and sensible support programs may be useful in sustaining long-term care at home by Korean daughter and daughter-in-law caregivers. Further family caregiving studies in the Korean sociocultural context are recommended.

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Social vulnerability and reactions to caregiving in daughters and daughters-in-law caring for disabled aging parents.

Variables that have been conceptually linked with social vulnerability--income, educational level, employment, cessation of work to provide care, marital status, social support, and health--were used to predict four categories of reaction to caregiving in 159 daughters and daughters-in-law caring for their disabled aging parents. Social support, income, and health best predicted negative reactions to caregiving; social support alone best predicted negative reactions to caregiving; social support alone best predicted feelings of family abandonment, impact on health, and impact on schedule. Compared with daughters and daughters-in-law who had not quit work to provide care, those who had quit work were significantly older, had lower incomes and fewer social supports, and were more involved in care. The results suggest that quitting work may be a precursor to social isolation that places the caregiver at increased risk for social vulnerability and negative reaction to caregiving. The implications of the findings for health care policy are discussed.

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PubMed1998

Longitudinal employment decisions of daughters and daughters-in-law after assuming parent care.

Employment decisions of full-time, part-time and not employed daughters and daughters-in-law (n = 157) are described over the first 18 months of parent care at two points in time: three months after assuming care and 15 months later. Employment decisions were also examined when caregiving continued (n = 55), when it was discontinued (n = 55) and when a parent died (n = 47). Findings indicate that part-time employed daughters make more changes and adjustments in their employment than do full-time or not employed daughters. When a parent died, more changes in employment occurred prior to the death than when a parent remained in care.

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PubMed2005

Caring for a Yobiyose-rojin: a comparison of burden on daughters and daughters-in-law.

The issue of "Yobiyose-rojin," elderly parents relocated to the home of one of their children because of the care required by their physical and mental conditions, has been the subject of recent attention in Japan. To determine the effective assistance that caregivers require, the authors compared daughters with daughters-in-law who care for an elderly parent in terms of characteristics and factors that might contribute to the caregiver's burden. Daughters-in-law perceived a much stronger burden although they took care of a less-impaired parent for fewer hours a day than daughters. The results indicated that an appropriate form of support must be carefully chosen based on the identity of the primary caregiver.

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PubMed1991

Psychological functioning of daughters of breast cancer patients. Part I: Daughters and comparison subjects.

Sixty daughters of mothers with breast cancer were matched for age, educational level, and race with 60 comparison subjects without a maternal history of breast cancer to assess the impact on psychological adjustment, coping, body image, sexual functioning, and health knowledge and practices of having had a mother with breast cancer. Daughters of breast cancer patients showed significantly less frequent sexual intercourse, lower sexual satisfaction, and greater feelings of vulnerability to breast cancer, and they could identify a greater number of symptoms of breast cancer. No differences between groups were found in psychological symptoms, coping styles, breast self-examination practices, mammography practices, health knowledge, or body-image ratings. Contrary to clinical studies, women at risk for breast cancer showed good overall coping with few signs of significant dysfunctions in relation to comparison subjects.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed1984

Conjoint mother-daughter treatment: a beginning phase of psychotherapy with adolescent daughters of divorce.

Recent reports suggest that divorce is a significant developmental stress for most children. Preventive intervention programs aimed at mitigating both short- and long-term divorce sequelae for children are now widespread. Considerably less attention has been paid to youngsters in need of clinical services years after parental separation. In this paper, adolescent daughters of divorced parents are described in the context of a proposed conjoint mother-daughter intervention.

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