“…In looking beyond anxiety, several studies have documented significant positive relationships between parental depression and pediatric health care use in children ages three to eighteen (Kramer, Warner, Olfson, Ebanks, Chaput, Weissman, 1998;Mandl, et al, 1999;Olfson, Marcus, Druss, Pincus, & Weissman, 2003;Weissman, Merikangas, John, Wickramaratne, et al, 1986). Children ages two to sixteen years categorized as high users of care have been shown to be twice as likely as low users to have parents that reported significant depressive symptoms (i.e.…”