Self-reported health and sickness benefits among parents of children with a disability
Engelsk titel: Self-reported health and sickness benefits among parents of children with a disability
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Författare:
Wendelborg, Christian
;
Tössebro, Jan
Email: christian.wendelborg@samfunn.ntnu.no
Språk: Eng
Antal referenser: 27
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 16113458
Sammanfattning
This article investigates the possible consequences in self-reported health and receipt of
sickness benefits when parenting a child with a disability This study uses data from the population
health study, The Nord-Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT 2), and the historical event database, FD-
Trygd, which contains Social Security and national insurance data for the Norwegian population. In
the analysis, we compare 1587 parents of a child with a disability to other parents. Results indicate
that parenting a disabled child impacts on self-reported health, particularly among mothers; however,
being a parent to a disabled child has a much stronger effect in explaining the variance in received
sickness benefits, and also length of time and frequency of having received sickness benefits.
Parents with disabled children report just slightly lower self-reported health but are on sickness
benefits more often than other parents which may be attributed to their extended care
responsibilities.