The Association between Child and Parent Psychiatric Disorders in Families Exposed to Flood and/or Dioxin
Associations of disaster mental health sequelae between children and their parents have been demonstrated, but not using full diagnostic assessment. This study examined children and their parents after a series of disasters in 1982 to investigate associations of their psychiatric outcomes. Members o...
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| author | Min Hyung Lee Betty Pfefferbaum Robert Portley Vinay Kotamarti Fatih Canan Carol S. North |
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| description | Associations of disaster mental health sequelae between children and their parents have been demonstrated, but not using full diagnostic assessment. This study examined children and their parents after a series of disasters in 1982 to investigate associations of their psychiatric outcomes. Members of 169 families exposed to floods and/or dioxin or no disaster were assessed in 1986–1987 with structured diagnostic interviews. This vintage dataset collected several decades ago provides new information to this field because of the methodological rigor that is unparalleled in this literature. Disaster-related PTSD and incident postdisaster disorders in children were associated, respectively with disaster-related PTSD and incident postdisaster disorders in the chief caregiver and mother. More flood-only than dioxin-only exposed parents reported great harm by the disaster, but neither children nor parents in these two groups differed in incident psychiatric disorders. Although this study did not determine the direction of causal influences, its findings suggest that clinicians working with disaster-exposed families should work with children and adult members together, as their mental health outcomes may be intertwined. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-63c9d620bba941a1af8d9d1b7c48cf172023-11-21T13:41:21ZengMDPI AGBehavioral Sciences2076-328X2021-04-011144610.3390/bs11040046The Association between Child and Parent Psychiatric Disorders in Families Exposed to Flood and/or DioxinMin Hyung Lee0Betty Pfefferbaum1Robert Portley2Vinay Kotamarti3Fatih Canan4Carol S. North5Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 78712, USADepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USALifewell Behavioral Wellness, Phoenix, AZ 85012, USADepartment of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 78712, USADepartment of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 78712, USADepartment of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 78712, USAAssociations of disaster mental health sequelae between children and their parents have been demonstrated, but not using full diagnostic assessment. This study examined children and their parents after a series of disasters in 1982 to investigate associations of their psychiatric outcomes. Members of 169 families exposed to floods and/or dioxin or no disaster were assessed in 1986–1987 with structured diagnostic interviews. This vintage dataset collected several decades ago provides new information to this field because of the methodological rigor that is unparalleled in this literature. Disaster-related PTSD and incident postdisaster disorders in children were associated, respectively with disaster-related PTSD and incident postdisaster disorders in the chief caregiver and mother. More flood-only than dioxin-only exposed parents reported great harm by the disaster, but neither children nor parents in these two groups differed in incident psychiatric disorders. Although this study did not determine the direction of causal influences, its findings suggest that clinicians working with disaster-exposed families should work with children and adult members together, as their mental health outcomes may be intertwined.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/11/4/46disasterfamilystructured diagnostic interviewPTSDchild |
| spellingShingle | Min Hyung Lee Betty Pfefferbaum Robert Portley Vinay Kotamarti Fatih Canan Carol S. North The Association between Child and Parent Psychiatric Disorders in Families Exposed to Flood and/or Dioxin Behavioral Sciences disaster family structured diagnostic interview PTSD child |
| title | The Association between Child and Parent Psychiatric Disorders in Families Exposed to Flood and/or Dioxin |
| title_full | The Association between Child and Parent Psychiatric Disorders in Families Exposed to Flood and/or Dioxin |
| title_fullStr | The Association between Child and Parent Psychiatric Disorders in Families Exposed to Flood and/or Dioxin |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Association between Child and Parent Psychiatric Disorders in Families Exposed to Flood and/or Dioxin |
| title_short | The Association between Child and Parent Psychiatric Disorders in Families Exposed to Flood and/or Dioxin |
| title_sort | association between child and parent psychiatric disorders in families exposed to flood and or dioxin |
| topic | disaster family structured diagnostic interview PTSD child |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/11/4/46 |
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