Authors
Laura W Wesseldijk, GC Dieleman, FJA van Steensel, Meike Bartels, JJ Hudziak, RJL Lindauer, SM Bögels, CM Middeldorp
Publication date
2018/12
Journal
European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Volume
27
Pages
1575-1584
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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 …
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