@article{ref1,
title="Differences in health care utilization between parents who perceive their child as vulnerable versus overprotective parents",
journal="Clinical pediatrics",
year="1996",
author="Thomasgard, M. and Metz, W. P.",
volume="35",
number="6",
pages="303-308",
abstract="While a parental perception of child vulnerability to illness/injury is often used interchangeably with parental overprotection, research suggests that they are independent constructs. We hypothesized more frequent pediatric nonwell-child visits for perceived child vulnerability, but not for parental overprotection. The parents of 300 children, ages 2-5 years, enrolled in a health maintenance organization, were sampled. For children without medical conditions, there were no differences in nonwell-child care visits between the high perceived vulnerability and high parental protection groups (Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test, WRST, P = .31). As expected, high parental protection was not significantly associated with increased nonwell-child care visits compared with the low parental protection group (WRST, P = .14). These findings suggest that markers other than health care utilization are required to identify these forms of parent-child relationship disorders.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0009-9228",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}