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The effect of the severity of parental alcohol abuse on mental and behavioural disorders in children
Many studies have shown that children of alcohol abusing parents have a higher risk for mental and behavioural disorders compared to other children. Using a retrospective population-based cohort study, based on health care and social welfare registers that include children born in Finland in 1997 an...
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author | Raitasalo, Kirsimarja Holmila, Marja Jääskeläinen, Marke Santalahti, Päivi |
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description | Many studies have shown that children of alcohol abusing parents have a higher risk for mental and behavioural disorders compared to other children. Using a retrospective population-based cohort study, based on health care and social welfare registers that include children born in Finland in 1997 and their biological parents, we evaluated whether the severity of parental alcohol abuse is related to these disorders in children. We examined (1) differences in the incidence of mental and behavioural disorders over time among the children of parents with no alcohol problems, parents with less severe alcohol problems and parents with severe alcohol problems, and (2) associations between mother’s and father’s alcohol abuse and children’s risk of disorders. Children were followed up until the age of 15. A diagnosis of mental or behavioural disorders during the follow-up was received by 15.4% of the boys and 9.0% of the girls. Both less severe alcohol abuse (HR = 1.36, 95% CI 1.14–1.61) and severe alcohol abuse (HR = 1.29, 95% CI 1.11–1.49) in mothers increased the risk of these disorders in their offspring. The corresponding figures among fathers were HR = 1.19, 95% CI 0.92–1.54 and HR = 1.16, 95% CI 1.02–1.32. Our results indicate that both maternal alcohol abuse and paternal alcohol abuse, regardless of severity, are associated with an increased risk of mental and behavioural disorders in children. It is crucial for professionals working with children to pay attention to all children whose parents have any alcohol abuse problems. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s00787-018-1253-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-66474162019-08-06 The effect of the severity of parental alcohol abuse on mental and behavioural disorders in children Raitasalo, Kirsimarja Holmila, Marja Jääskeläinen, Marke Santalahti, Päivi Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry Original Contribution Many studies have shown that children of alcohol abusing parents have a higher risk for mental and behavioural disorders compared to other children. Using a retrospective population-based cohort study, based on health care and social welfare registers that include children born in Finland in 1997 and their biological parents, we evaluated whether the severity of parental alcohol abuse is related to these disorders in children. We examined (1) differences in the incidence of mental and behavioural disorders over time among the children of parents with no alcohol problems, parents with less severe alcohol problems and parents with severe alcohol problems, and (2) associations between mother’s and father’s alcohol abuse and children’s risk of disorders. Children were followed up until the age of 15. A diagnosis of mental or behavioural disorders during the follow-up was received by 15.4% of the boys and 9.0% of the girls. Both less severe alcohol abuse (HR = 1.36, 95% CI 1.14–1.61) and severe alcohol abuse (HR = 1.29, 95% CI 1.11–1.49) in mothers increased the risk of these disorders in their offspring. The corresponding figures among fathers were HR = 1.19, 95% CI 0.92–1.54 and HR = 1.16, 95% CI 1.02–1.32. Our results indicate that both maternal alcohol abuse and paternal alcohol abuse, regardless of severity, are associated with an increased risk of mental and behavioural disorders in children. It is crucial for professionals working with children to pay attention to all children whose parents have any alcohol abuse problems. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1007/s00787-018-1253-6) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2018-11-14 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6647416/ /pubmed/30430262 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00787-018-1253-6 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. |
spellingShingle | Original Contribution Raitasalo, Kirsimarja Holmila, Marja Jääskeläinen, Marke Santalahti, Päivi The effect of the severity of parental alcohol abuse on mental and behavioural disorders in children |
title | The effect of the severity of parental alcohol abuse on mental and behavioural disorders in children |
title_full | The effect of the severity of parental alcohol abuse on mental and behavioural disorders in children |
title_fullStr | The effect of the severity of parental alcohol abuse on mental and behavioural disorders in children |
title_full_unstemmed | The effect of the severity of parental alcohol abuse on mental and behavioural disorders in children |
title_short | The effect of the severity of parental alcohol abuse on mental and behavioural disorders in children |
title_sort | effect of the severity of parental alcohol abuse on mental and behavioural disorders in children |
topic | Original Contribution |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6647416/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30430262 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00787-018-1253-6 |
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