Emotional and behavioural difficulties in children of parents with multiple sclerosis
| Autor: | Dimitris C. Anagnostopoulos, Stavroula Diareme, John Tsiantis, Costas Voumvourakis, Sophia Anasontzi, Elena Paliokosta, Eirini Lympinaki, Gerasimos Kolaitis, Emmanuel Tsalamanios, Georg Romer, Spyros Ferentinos |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Parents medicine.medical_specialty Multiple Sclerosis Adolescent Dysfunctional family Child Behavior Disorders Severity of Illness Index Child of Impaired Parents Surveys and Questionnaires Prevalence Developmental and Educational Psychology Child and adolescent psychiatry medicine Humans Family Child Psychiatry Depression (differential diagnoses) Greece Mood Disorders Multiple sclerosis Beck Depression Inventory General Medicine medicine.disease Checklist Psychiatry and Mental health El Niño Child Preschool Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Female Psychology Clinical psychology Psychopathology |
| Zdroj: | European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. 15:309-318 |
| ISSN: | 1435-165X 1018-8827 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00787-006-0534-7 |
| Popis: | Emotional and behavioural problems were investigated in children who have a parent with multiple sclerosis (MS), in relation to factors such as family dysfunction, parental depression and illness-related characteristics. The participants were 56 MS patients, their spouses and one randomly selected child aged 4-17 years, and a comparison group of 64 children and both their parents, none of whom reported somatic illness. Emotional and behavioural problems in the children were identified by reporting of both parents and self-report using the Achenbach's Child Behaviour Checklist and Youth Self Report respectively. Parental depression and family dysfunction were explored using the Beck Depression Inventory and Family Assessment Device, respectively. The data were analysed using independent samples t-tests for between-group comparisons, Pearson r correlations between children's problems and family dysfunction or parental depression, and multiple regression analyses for identifying predictors for children's problems. Children whose parents, especially mothers, had MS presented greater emotional and behavioural problems than comparison children. Children's problems were positively associated with maternal depression and family dysfunction. Family dysfunction predicted children's overall and externalizing problems, while the severity of impairment of the ill mother predicted children's internalizing problems. Implications of these findings for clinical practice are discussed. |
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