Child-rearing practices toward children with hemophilia: The relative importance of clinical characteristics and parental emotional reactions

This study addresses the relative importance of clinical characteristics of the child and parental emotional reactions, to child-rearing practices towards children who suffer from hemophilia. The variables were assessed in a Dutch sample of 108 zero-to-twelve-year-old boys with hemophilia and their mothers. Data were analyzed using hierarchical regression analyses with clinical characteristics and emotional reactions as independent variables and child-rearing practices as respective dependent variables. Mother's emotional reactions appeared to have a stronger influence on child-rearing uncertainty and overprotection than clinical characteristics of the son.