Patterns of Communicating about Family Health History: Exploring Differences in Family Types, Age, and Sex

Autor/inn/en	Campbell-Salome, Gemme; Rauscher, Emily A.; Freytag, Jennifer
Titel	Patterns of Communicating about Family Health History: Exploring Differences in Family Types, Age, and Sex
Quelle	In: Health Education & Behavior, 46 (2019) 5, S.809-817 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Campbell-Salome, Gemme)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1090-1981
DOI	10.1177/1090198119853002
Schlagwörter	Health Behavior; Family Characteristics; Age Differences; Gender Differences; Family Environment; Disclosure; Family Relationship; Family Attitudes; Interpersonal Communication; Heredity; Genetic Disorders; Case Records; Chronic Illness; Clinical Diagnosis; Social Behavior; Patient Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Health behaviour; Gesundheitsverhalten; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Geschlechterkonflikt; Familienmilieu; Interpersonale Kommunikation; Erblichkeit; Case reports; Fallsammlung; Chronic disease; Chronische Krankheit; Social behaviour; Soziales Verhalten
Abstract	Family communication environments can be a facilitator or barrier to family cooperation and communication in collecting family health history (FHH) information, which can facilitate disease prevention. This study examined the direct and indirect effects of family communicative environments on whether individuals actively collected FHH information, as well as how age and sex differences complicate this relationship. Participants (N = 203) completed online surveys, answering close-ended questions about their family's communication patterns, how open their family is to communicating about FHH, and whether they have actively collected FHH information. Results show there was a direct effect between open family communicative environments and active collection, and found FHH communication openness was a positive partial mediator. Conversely, family environments stressing hierarchy and homogeneity of beliefs inhibit open communication about and collection of a FHH. Analysis of age and sex as moderators in the models showed a significant conditional indirect effects, which grew stronger as participants' age increased. Furthermore, results showed open family communicative environments lead to active collection of FHH for women, but not for men. Results confirm the importance of family communicative environments in facilitating or inhibiting FHH collection. Findings from the current study provide intervention points for practitioners to advise patients on the importance of collecting a FHH and guide behaviors to collect FHH information based on the family communicative environment. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01