Predictors and interdependence of family support in a random sample of long-term young breast cancer survivors and their biological relatives.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Women diagnosed with breast cancer younger than 45 years (young breast cancer survivors-YBCS) and their biological relatives face significant stressors. Although family support is an important coping resource, little is known about YBCS' and relatives' support and whether it is interdependent. The study described family support in YBCS and their biological relatives; identified demographic, clinical, and psychosocial predictors of support; and determined the interdependence of support in YBCS-relatives family units.

Methods

Data were collected from a random sample of YBCS and their first- or second-degree female relatives. Actor-partner interdependence models (APIM) explored predictors and interdependence of YBCS' and relatives' family support in dyads (YBCS and re

SUBMITTER: Katapodi MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6198202 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature