Author, as appears in the article.: López Seco F; Aguado-Gracia J; Mundo-Cid P; Acosta-García S; Martí-Serrano S; Gaviria A; Vilella E; Masana-Marín A

Department: Medicina i Cirurgia

URV's Author/s: López Seco, Fernando / Vilella Cuadrada, Elisabet

Keywords: Prognosis Family risk factors Adult adhd Adhd family risk factors adult adhd adhd

Abstract: © 2015 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. Controversy exists about the role of parent psychopathology in persistence and severity of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms in their children. Here we aimed to analyse the potential association between the severity of ADHD symptoms in children and the presence of psychiatric and ADHD symptoms in their biological parents. Seventy-three triads of children and their parents who were in active treatment for their diagnosed ADHD were evaluated in our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Centers. The mental health of the parents was also assessed. The general psychopathology of the parents was evaluated using the Symptom Checklist-90-R (SCL-90-R), and symptoms of hyperactivity were examined using the Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS v.1.1). The severity of symptoms in children was assessed using the ADHD Rating Scale-IV (ADHD-RS-IV). Variables that could have affected the clinical development of ADHD such as sex, evolution time, age, academic level and the presence of comorbidities were controlled. The severity of the symptoms in children with ADHD was significantly related to the psychiatric history of their mother, the younger age of the child and the presence of a comorbid conduct disorder in the child. We discussed the importance of screening for parental psychopathology in clinical practice.

Thematic Areas: Saúde coletiva Psychiatry and mental health Psychiatry Psicología Nutrição Medicina iii Medicina ii Medicina i Matemática / probabilidade e estatística Interdisciplinar General medicine Ensino Engenharias iv Enfermagem Educação física Ciencias sociales Ciências biológicas iii Ciências biológicas ii Ciências biológicas i Ciências ambientais Biotecnología Biological psychiatry Antropologia / arqueologia

licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

ISSN: 01651781

Author's mail: elisabet.vilella@urv.cat fernando.lopez@urv.cat

Author identifier: 0000-0002-1887-5919

Record's date: 2023-02-26

Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion

Link to the original source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165178115000992

Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Papper original source: Psychiatry Research. 226 (2-3): 507-512

APA: López Seco F; Aguado-Gracia J; Mundo-Cid P; Acosta-García S; Martí-Serrano S; Gaviria A; Vilella E; Masana-Marín A (2015). Maternal psychiatric history is associated with the symptom severity of ADHD in offspring. Psychiatry Research, 226(2-3), 507-512. DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2015.02.010

Article's DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2015.02.010

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Journal publication year: 2015

Publication Type: Journal Publications