Biomedical subjects

C A Mowbray

Publications and source records attributed to C A Mowbray.

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PubMed1990

Personal goals of recently divorced women.

This paper is a report of the synthesis of feminism and science in a study of the personal goals of recently divorced women with children. The divorce records of three counties were used to identify the participants; eight categories described the primary goals identified by 250 women. Independence, followed by employment and education were the most frequently cited categories. Analysis of variance was computed to analyze the relationships among the primary goal categories, the personal characteristics of the women and their feminist attitudes. Age was the only variable related to selection of a primary goal. Older women chose employment and environmental goals more often than they did mental health goals.

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PubMed1989

Shedding light on elder abuse.

Elder abuse as a social problem has become the focus of nursing research only in the past decade. As information about the incidence and prevalence of spousal and child abuse came to light, data emerged regarding dependent elderly being abused by adult caregivers, often their children. Documenting and defining elder abuse has been problematic because of a lack of consensual definition and the social stigma surrounding the problem. Standardized assessment methods are still lacking. Nursing research studies focusing on abuse have begun to clarify the variables of abuse and have helped to describe potentially abusive family caregivers. These studies have laid the groundwork for generating theory that will be useful to practitioners to identify and intervene in this family violence arena.

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