The Health of Mothers of Adult Children with Serious Conditions.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study examined the association between parenting adult children with serious conditions and mothers' midlife health in the United States.

Background

The literature about the link between the parenting status of having an adult child with a serious condition and maternal wellbeing can be advanced by systematic analysis of the cumulative role that this parenting status can play in maternal health over the life course as opposed to at any one point.

Method

Propensity score reweighting models of data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1979 and its linked child and young adult data estimated disparities in midlife health among mothers of adult children with serious conditions (disabilities, developmental disorders, chronic diseases) and mothers o

SUBMITTER: Hyungmin Cha 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9384965 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature