Prevalence of psychiatric illness in primary caretakers of childhood-onset schizophrenia subjects
Childhood-onset schizophrenia (COS) refers to schizophrenia with onset of psychotic symptoms prior to a child’s 13th birthday. Optimal treatment likely includes family-based services supplementing antipsychotic pharmacotherapy. However, family-based services can require adjustment based on parental...
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| description | Childhood-onset schizophrenia (COS) refers to schizophrenia with onset of psychotic symptoms prior to a child’s 13th birthday. Optimal treatment likely includes family-based services supplementing antipsychotic pharmacotherapy. However, family-based services can require adjustment based on parental psychopathology; there has been little literature exploring the frequency or type of psychopathology seen in parents of COS cases. This report includes the results of a structured psychiatric evaluation on 80 parents of a COS case with comparison to a sample of 304 parents. Having a child with psychosis and being of minority racial/ethnicity status increased risk for psychiatric illness. Psychotic disorders (15% <em>vs</em>. 5%), mood disorders (54% <em>vs</em>. 27%), anxiety disorders (30% <em>vs</em>. 18%), and substance use disorders (49% <em>vs</em>. 31%) were all increased in the parents with a psychotic child. Psychiatric illness is common in parents of a child with COS and will need to be consid- ered as family-based services for COS are developed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5f67a9beab7044709152ea9c3500bd862023-01-03T10:18:41ZengHindawi - Emerald PublishingMental Illness2036-74572036-74652012-07-0142e22e2210.4081/mi.2012.e22Prevalence of psychiatric illness in primary caretakers of childhood-onset schizophrenia subjectsRandal G. RossJonathan KusumiChildhood-onset schizophrenia (COS) refers to schizophrenia with onset of psychotic symptoms prior to a child’s 13th birthday. Optimal treatment likely includes family-based services supplementing antipsychotic pharmacotherapy. However, family-based services can require adjustment based on parental psychopathology; there has been little literature exploring the frequency or type of psychopathology seen in parents of COS cases. This report includes the results of a structured psychiatric evaluation on 80 parents of a COS case with comparison to a sample of 304 parents. Having a child with psychosis and being of minority racial/ethnicity status increased risk for psychiatric illness. Psychotic disorders (15% <em>vs</em>. 5%), mood disorders (54% <em>vs</em>. 27%), anxiety disorders (30% <em>vs</em>. 18%), and substance use disorders (49% <em>vs</em>. 31%) were all increased in the parents with a psychotic child. Psychiatric illness is common in parents of a child with COS and will need to be consid- ered as family-based services for COS are developed.http://www.pagepress.org/journals/index.php/mi/article/view/3613childhood-onset schizophrenia, family study |
| spellingShingle | Randal G. Ross Jonathan Kusumi Prevalence of psychiatric illness in primary caretakers of childhood-onset schizophrenia subjects Mental Illness childhood-onset schizophrenia, family study |
| title | Prevalence of psychiatric illness in primary caretakers of childhood-onset schizophrenia subjects |
| title_full | Prevalence of psychiatric illness in primary caretakers of childhood-onset schizophrenia subjects |
| title_fullStr | Prevalence of psychiatric illness in primary caretakers of childhood-onset schizophrenia subjects |
| title_full_unstemmed | Prevalence of psychiatric illness in primary caretakers of childhood-onset schizophrenia subjects |
| title_short | Prevalence of psychiatric illness in primary caretakers of childhood-onset schizophrenia subjects |
| title_sort | prevalence of psychiatric illness in primary caretakers of childhood onset schizophrenia subjects |
| topic | childhood-onset schizophrenia, family study |
| url | http://www.pagepress.org/journals/index.php/mi/article/view/3613 |
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