DEPENDENT-CARE DIRECTED TOWARD THE PREVENTION OF HAZARDS TO LIFE, HEALTH, AND WELL-BEING IN MOTHERS AND CHILDREN WHO EXPERIENCE FAMILY VIOLENCE.
Contributors: Wayne State University.
Published: 1989
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.
Description: The purpose of this nursing research was to describe the phenomenon of dependent-care (Orem, 1985) directed toward the prevention of hazards to life, health, and well-being in mothers and their children who experience family violence. Dependent-care was defined as the activities individuals initiate and perform on behalf of someone else in maintaining the life, health, and well-being of that other person. This care was directed toward achieving or maintaining the actions that were necessary for basic human needs, in this case, the prevention of hazards to human life, human functioning, and human well-being. Qualitative and quantitative research methods and analyses were used to answer the following research questions: (1) What is the nature of dependent-care directed toward the prevention of hazards to life, health, and well-being of their children by mothers who experience family violence? (2) What is the nature of dependent-care directed toward the prevention of hazards to life, health, and well-being of their mothers by children who experience family violence? and, (3) What is the relationship among basic conditioning factors and the type, amount, and perceived effectiveness of dependent-care in mothers and their children who experience family violence?.

Data were collected at battered women's shelters in Southeastern Michigan through the use of investigator developed interview guides for mothers (N = 50) and their children (N = 50). Mothers and their children who experience family violence were found to demonstrate creative, deliberate, and diverse dependent-care. Patterns, categories, and subcategories within each typology of dependent-care were based upon the dependent-care method, timing, and directness reported by mothers and children. Patterns of mothers' dependent-care were Prevention, Protection and Removal. Patterns of children's dependent-care were Protection and Supporting. Protection dependent-care, the largest category of behaviors for both mothers and children, was composed of Direct Acting, Teaching, Macro Acting, Complaining, and Attending for mothers and Intervening, Advice seeking, Noninterfering and Monitoring for children. Dependent-care behaviors were influenced by basic conditioning factors. Fourteen percent of the variance in mothers' dependent-care scores was accounted for by mothers' rating of their health and children's gender. Mothers' grade point average, mothers' age, and children's last grade completed in school accounted for 18% of the variance in dependent-care scores for children.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-04, Section: B, page: 1744.

Thesis (PH.D.)--WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY, 1989.

School code: 0254.