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- Title
The relationship between restrictive and repetitive behaviors in individuals with autism and obsessive compulsive symptoms in parents.
- Authors
Abramson, R K; Ravan, S A; Wright, H H; Wieduwilt, K; Wolpert, C M; Donnelly, S A; Pericak-Vance, M A; Cuccaro, M L
- Abstract
This study investigated the relationship between repetitive behaviors in individuals with autism and obsessive-compulsive behaviors in parents. We hypothesized that repetitive behaviors in probands with autism would be associated with increased obsessive-compulsive behaviors in parents in sporadic families (1 known case of autism per family and no known history of autism). Parents with clinically significant Y-BOCS scores were more likely to have a family history of obsessive-compulsive disorder. The empirically derived Autism Diagnostic Interview-R (ADI-R) factor, Insistence on Sameness, was positively correlated with obsessive-compulsive behaviors in parents. Further, when probands were grouped on the basis of parental Y-BOCS scores (clinically significant versus non-clinically significant), probands whose parents had clinically significant Y-BOCS scores had higher ADI-R Insistence on Sameness factor scores. The findings of the current study of sporadic families extend previous work that has shown an association between restrictive/repetitive behaviors in probands with autism and obsessive-compulsive features in parents.
- Publication
Child psychiatry and human development, 2005, Vol 36, Issue 2, p155
- ISSN
0009-398X
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10578-005-2973-7