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Risk factors for parental psychopathology: a study in families with children or adolescents with psychopathology

The parents of children with psychopathology are at increased risk for psychiatric symptoms. To investigate which parents are mostly at risk, we assessed in a clinical sample of families with children with psychopathology, whether parental symptom scores can be predicted by offspring psychiatric dia...

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Autores principales: Wesseldijk, L. W., Dieleman, G. C., van Steensel, F. J. A., Bartels, M., Hudziak, J. J., Lindauer, R. J. L., Bögels, S. M., Middeldorp, C. M.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6245117/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29644474
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00787-018-1156-6
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author Wesseldijk, L. W.
Dieleman, G. C.
van Steensel, F. J. A.
Bartels, M.
Hudziak, J. J.
Lindauer, R. J. L.
Bögels, S. M.
Middeldorp, C. M.
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Dieleman, G. C.
van Steensel, F. J. A.
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Hudziak, J. J.
Lindauer, R. J. L.
Bögels, S. M.
Middeldorp, C. M.
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description The parents of children with psychopathology are at increased risk for psychiatric symptoms. To investigate which parents are mostly at risk, we assessed in a clinical sample of families with children with psychopathology, whether parental symptom scores can be predicted by offspring psychiatric diagnoses and other child, parent and family characteristics. Parental depressive, anxiety, avoidant personality, attention-deficit/hyperactivity (ADHD), and antisocial personality symptoms were measured with the Adult Self Report in 1805 mothers and 1361 fathers of 1866 children with a psychiatric diagnosis as assessed in a child and adolescent psychiatric outpatient clinic. In a multivariate model, including all parental symptom scores as outcome variables, all offspring psychiatric diagnoses, offspring comorbidity and age, parental age, parental educational attainment, employment, and relationship status were simultaneously tested as predictors. Both 35.7% of mothers and 32.8% of fathers scored (sub)clinical for at least one symptom domain, mainly depressive symptoms, ADHD symptoms or, only in fathers, avoidant personality symptoms. Parental psychiatric symptoms were predicted by unemployment. Parental depressive and ADHD symptoms were further predicted by offspring depression and offspring ADHD, respectively, as well as by not living together with the other parent. Finally, parental avoidant personality symptoms were also predicted by offspring autism spectrum disorders. In families with children referred to child and adolescent psychiatric outpatient clinics, parental symptom scores are associated with adverse circumstances and with similar psychopathology in their offspring. This signifies, without implying causality, that some families are particularly vulnerable, with multiple family members affected and living in adverse circumstances. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s00787-018-1156-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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spelling pubmed-62451172018-12-06 Risk factors for parental psychopathology: a study in families with children or adolescents with psychopathology Wesseldijk, L. W. Dieleman, G. C. van Steensel, F. J. A. Bartels, M. Hudziak, J. J. Lindauer, R. J. L. Bögels, S. M. Middeldorp, C. M. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry Original Contribution The parents of children with psychopathology are at increased risk for psychiatric symptoms. To investigate which parents are mostly at risk, we assessed in a clinical sample of families with children with psychopathology, whether parental symptom scores can be predicted by offspring psychiatric diagnoses and other child, parent and family characteristics. Parental depressive, anxiety, avoidant personality, attention-deficit/hyperactivity (ADHD), and antisocial personality symptoms were measured with the Adult Self Report in 1805 mothers and 1361 fathers of 1866 children with a psychiatric diagnosis as assessed in a child and adolescent psychiatric outpatient clinic. In a multivariate model, including all parental symptom scores as outcome variables, all offspring psychiatric diagnoses, offspring comorbidity and age, parental age, parental educational attainment, employment, and relationship status were simultaneously tested as predictors. Both 35.7% of mothers and 32.8% of fathers scored (sub)clinical for at least one symptom domain, mainly depressive symptoms, ADHD symptoms or, only in fathers, avoidant personality symptoms. Parental psychiatric symptoms were predicted by unemployment. Parental depressive and ADHD symptoms were further predicted by offspring depression and offspring ADHD, respectively, as well as by not living together with the other parent. Finally, parental avoidant personality symptoms were also predicted by offspring autism spectrum disorders. In families with children referred to child and adolescent psychiatric outpatient clinics, parental symptom scores are associated with adverse circumstances and with similar psychopathology in their offspring. This signifies, without implying causality, that some families are particularly vulnerable, with multiple family members affected and living in adverse circumstances. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s00787-018-1156-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2018-04-11 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6245117/ /pubmed/29644474 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00787-018-1156-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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Wesseldijk, L. W.
Dieleman, G. C.
van Steensel, F. J. A.
Bartels, M.
Hudziak, J. J.
Lindauer, R. J. L.
Bögels, S. M.
Middeldorp, C. M.
Risk factors for parental psychopathology: a study in families with children or adolescents with psychopathology
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title_fullStr Risk factors for parental psychopathology: a study in families with children or adolescents with psychopathology
title_full_unstemmed Risk factors for parental psychopathology: a study in families with children or adolescents with psychopathology
title_short Risk factors for parental psychopathology: a study in families with children or adolescents with psychopathology
title_sort risk factors for parental psychopathology: a study in families with children or adolescents with psychopathology
topic Original Contribution
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6245117/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29644474
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00787-018-1156-6
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