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| Preventive health behaviours among grandmothers raising grandchildren | | Author(s) | Lindsey A Baker, Merril Silverstein |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 63B, no 5, September 2008 |
| Pages | pp S304-S311 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Grandparents as carers ; Grandmothers ; Grandchildren ; Health [elderly] ; Preventative medicine ; Family relationships ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Using data from the US Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) for 2000, 2002 and 2004, the authors ran multivariate logistic regression models to assess receipt of influenza vaccination, cholesterol screening, monthly breast self-examination, mammography, and cervical smear tests among grandmothers aged 50-75. Grandmothers who recently began raising a grandchild were significantly less likely to report flu vaccination and cholesterol screening than grandmothers not raising grandchildren, controlling for increased emotional and financial strain within the household. The authors also observed this association for smear tests, although this finding was only marginally significant. Grandmothers who had been raising a grandchild for at least 2 years were significantly more likely to report flu vaccination and monthly breast self-examination than grandmothers not raising grandchildren. The enforcement of preventive behaviour seen among longer-term grandparent caregivers does not fully affect the suppression of preventive behaviour during the transition into care; support groups should target a range of interventions towards the promotion of healthy behaviour among new grandparent caregivers. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-081009218 A |
| Classmark | P6:SW: SW2: SW5: CC: LK2: DS:SJ: 3F: 7T |
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