Table 1.
Sample characteristics (n = 102)
| Mothers | Co-parents | |
|---|---|---|
| Demographics | ||
| Age, years (M [SD])a | 46.0 (6.0) | 48.1 (6.8) |
| Race | ||
| Non-Hispanic white | 87.2 % | 87.2 % |
| Non-white | 12.8 % | 12.8 % |
| Education | ||
| <College education | 23.5 % | 19.6 % |
| ≥College education | 76.5 % | 80.4 % |
| Marital status | ||
| Married/living as married | 91.2 % | 91.7 % |
| Unmarried | 8.8 | 8.3 % |
| Maternal clinical characteristics | ||
| Proband status | ||
| Yes | 79.4 % | – |
| No | 20.6 % | – |
| Family history of breast/ovarian cancer | ||
| Yes | 45.1 % | – |
| No | 54.9 % | – |
| BRCA test resultsb | ||
| True negative | 14.7 % | – |
| Uninformative | 76.5 % | – |
| Positive | 8.8 % | – |
| Child demographics | ||
| Age (M [SD]) | 12.5 (3.3) | 12.5 (3.3) |
| Gender | ||
| Female | 56.9 % | 56.9 % |
| Male | 43.1 % | 43.1 % |
| Baseline cognitive appraisals (M [SD]) | ||
| Primary (stress) | 4.2 (2.2) | 4.2 (2.0) |
| Secondary (coping confidence) | 10.4 (2.1) | 10.3 (2.1) |
| Baseline parenting alliance (PAM, M [SD]) | 90.3 (9.9) | 90.0 (9.3) |
| Parent–child communication (PAC, M [SD]) | ||
| Baseline* | 81.9 (10.4) | 77.2 (9.4) |
| 6 months* | 81.4 (10.5) | 78.5 (10.5) |
PAM Parenting alliance measure, PAC Parent–Adolescent Communication scale
a
Mothers and co-parents differed significantly at p < 0.05
b
For subsequent analyses, “true negative” and “uninformative” results were combined into a single category