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- Title
A comparative survey in children behavior problems with obsessive compulsive and healthy mothers.
- Authors
Mousavi, Seyed Mohamad; Ahmadi, Mahshid
- Abstract
Background and purpose: The prevalence of behavioral problems in children with mentally ill parents is higher than children with healthy parents. This study focused on the effects of mothers' obsessive-compulsive disorder on children's behaviors. Materials and methods: In a case control study we compared 50 children at age 6-11 years with obsessive-compulsive mothers who proceeded to Bandar Abbas psychiatric centre with 50 children with mentally healthy mothers at same age based on Achenbach child behavior questionnaire. Results: Somatic complains, anxiety and depression, social problems, externalization and internalization scores, were meaningfully higher in case group. No significant differences in isolation, attention problems, thought problems, antisocial behaviors were seen between two groups. Conclusion: problem behaviors in children with obsessive-compulsive mothers are more common, compared with children with healthy mothers. Child psychological counseling and psychiatric management in concordance mothers' treatment is suggested.
- Subjects
BEHAVIOR disorders in children; HEALTH of mothers; OBSESSIVE-compulsive disorder in children; COMPARATIVE studies; DISEASE prevalence; PARENTS with mental illness
- Publication
Journal of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences (JMUMS), 2012, Vol 22, Issue 86, p102
- ISSN
1735-9260
- Publication type
Article