A qualitative comparison of women's attitudes toward hysterectomy and myomectomy.

Hysterectomy is the second most common surgery in the United States, where it is practiced at far higher levels than in any other country. There is limited understanding however, of why American women choose hysterectomy over other treatments. Using a qualitative interview approach, we examined the attitudes of 18 women who had either a hysterectomy or abdominal myomectomy as a treatment for uterine fibroids.

Adolescents coping with mom's breast cancer: developing family intervention programs.

The purpose of this pilot study was to gain a deeper understanding of how adolescents are affected by their mothers' breast cancer and to discover their opinions about how future intervention programs should be designed. Three focus groups were conducted with a total of 10 adolescents. Findings indicate that adolescents' lives had been complicated by their mothers' illness, as they often felt burdened with additional roles and responsibilities.

Parenting practices and the transmission of ethnic identity.

Three years after being interviewed, a nonrandom, purposeful subsample of 14 Jewish families from a larger sample of 48 families living in Central New York was reinterviewed. The primary aim of this follow-up study was to develop a descriptive understanding of parenting practices and the transmission of ethnic identity. Semistructured family interviews were conducted and coded using grounded-theory techniques, in particular the constant comparative method of analysis.