Overparenting (O-P), or “helicopter” parenting, has warranted increased attention across the past decade. It is characterized as being overly involved, protective, and low on granting autonomy, and is associated with deleterious psychosocial outcomes outside of the concussion literature. This study examined the association of overparenting and patient emotional distress and clinical outcomes (i.e., symptoms, neurocognitive test scores, recovery time) post-concussion. Adolescents/young adult concussion patients (injury < 30 days) and parents (N = 101 child-parent dyads) participated. Patient participants completed measures of depression, anxiety, stress, and concussion clinical outcomes while parents concurrently completed an overparenting measure. Results of a general linear model found that overparenting was associated with higher anxiety and stress report of the child. Overparenting had a significant positive correlation with concussion recovery, although of a small magnitude. Emotional distress level, but not overparenting, was moderately associated with worse performance on clinical outcomes, including neurocognitive testing, vestibular/ocular motor dysfunction, and concussion symptom severity.

过度养育 (OP) 或“直升机式”养育在过去十年中引起了越来越多的关注。它的特点是过度参与、保护性和自主性低，并且与脑震荡文献之外的有害心理社会结果有关。这项研究检查了过度养育和患者情绪困扰与脑震荡后临床结果（即症状、神经认知测试分数、恢复时间）之间的关联。青少年/年轻成人脑震荡患者（受伤 < 30 天）和父母（N = 101 名儿童-父母对）参与了。患者参与者完成了抑郁、焦虑、压力和脑震荡临床结果的测量，而父母同时完成了过度养育的测量。一般线性模型的结果发现，过度养育与孩子更高的焦虑和压力报告有关。过度养育与脑震荡恢复呈显着正相关，尽管幅度很小。情绪困扰水平，但不是过度养育，与临床结果的较差表现中度相关，包括神经认知测试、前庭/眼部运动功能障碍和脑震荡症状严重程度。