Abstract
Parents who volunteer their children for medical research are significantly more socially disadvantaged and emotionally vulnerable.
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DisadvantagedMedicineHabitFamily medicineVolunteerPsychologySocial psychology
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- 1990
- Type
- article
- Volume
- 300
- Issue
- 6736
- Pages
- 1372-1375
- Citations
- 121
- Access
- Closed
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S. C. HARTH,
Y.H. Thong
(1990).
Sociodemographic and motivational characteristics of parents who volunteer their children for clinical research: a controlled study..
BMJ
, 300
(6736)
, 1372-1375.
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.300.6736.1372
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- DOI
- 10.1136/bmj.300.6736.1372