Adult Children
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Examining the social context in the caregiving experience: correlates of global self-esteem among adult daughter caregivers to an older parent with cancer.

29 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVE: To examine the associations between various patient, disease, situation, and caregiver characteristics (organized by five conceptual domains) and global self-esteem among caregiver daughters to parents with cancer. METHOD: Dyads comprised ... Read more...

Self-concept in adult children of schizophrenic parents: an exploratory study.

30 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: Much of the work on children of schizophrenic parents has primarily focused on the risk of developing various kinds of psychiatric disorders, behavioural problems and cognitive vulnerability factors. There has been inadequate attention ... Read more...

'A bed in the middle of nowhere': parents' meanings of place of death for adults with cystic fibrosis.

16 Aug 2009 As populations age and chronic conditions become more prevalent, an individual's ability to choose the location of their end-of-life care and death is increasingly considered important in the provision of good healthcare, with home implied as the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Adult Children'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Examining the social context in the caregiving experience: correlates of global self-esteem among adult daughter caregivers to an older parent with cancer. 29 Sep 2009
• Self-concept in adult children of schizophrenic parents: an exploratory study. 30 Aug 2009
• Living arrangement and colorectal cancer screening: updated USPSTF guidelines. 18 Aug 2009
• 'A bed in the middle of nowhere': parents' meanings of place of death for adults with cystic fibrosis. 16 Aug 2009
• Older and younger family caregivers of adults with intellectual disability: factors associated with future plans. 30 Jul 2009
• [Present state of cochlear implant treatment in adults and children] 29 Jun 2009
• Aging fathers of adult children with schizophrenia: the toll of caregiving on their mental and physical health. 29 Jun 2009
• [A difficult end of life] 29 Jun 2009
• Intergenerational support of Chinese rural elders with migrant children: do sons' or daughters' migrations make a difference? 29 Jun 2009
• Risk factors associated with aortic and carotid intima-media thickness in adolescents and young adults: the Muscatine Offspring Study. 14 Jun 2009
• Association of the endogenous nitric oxide synthase inhibitor ADMA with carotid artery intimal media thickness in the Framingham Heart Study offspring cohort. 2 Jun 2009
• Intergenerational support and subjective health of older people in rural China: a gender-based longitudinal study. 30 May 2009
• The health effects of parental problem drinking on adult children. 30 May 2009
• Tensions in the parent and adult child relationship: Links to solidarity and ambivalence. 30 May 2009
• Polycystic ovary syndrome--"A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma". 30 May 2009
• Reweaving the self: creative writing in response to tragedy. 30 May 2009
• "You don't want to burden them": older adults' views on family involvement in care. 25 May 2009
• Overweight and the metabolic syndrome in adult offspring of women with diet-treated gestational diabetes mellitus or type 1 diabetes. 3 May 2009
• Specific allergic sensitization in parents and their 18-year-old offspring in the Suburban Detroit Childhood Allergy Study. 3 May 2009
• Prenatal cocaine exposure differentially causes vascular dysfunction in adult offspring. 18 Apr 2009

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Technical information about 'Adult Children'

Definition: Children who have reached maturity or the legal age of majority.

Descriptor UI: D032721

Alternative terms: Adult Children; Offspring, Adult; Adult Sons; Adult Son; Son, Adult; Sons, Adult; Children, Adult; Adult Daughters; Adult Daughter; Daughter, Adult; Daughters, Adult; Adult Offspring;

Allowable Qualifiers: ethnology; psychology;

Tree Number: F01.829.263.065; I01.880.225.281; M01.055;

History Note: 2003; use FAMILY 2002

Technical Notes: HUMAN only; use only when the subject of discussion, not as a checktag