Impact of psychiatric disturbance on identifying psychiatric disorder in relatives: study of mothers and daughters.
Previous studies have suggested that collecting psychiatric data on relatives in family studies by asking probands to provide information on them leads to a bias in estimates of morbidity risk, because probands'accounts are influenced by their own psychiatric histories. We investigated this in a UK sample and found that daughters'anxiety disorder histories did not influence their reports of anxiety disorder in mothers, but their history of mood disorder/alcohol dependence made them more sensitive in predicting mood disorder/alcohol dependence in mothers.
Coelho
Helen F
HF
Winnicott Research Unit, School of Psychology, University of Reading, 3 Earley Gate,Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AL, UK.
Cooper
Peter J
PJ
Murray
Lynne
L
D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D030881:Disclosure; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D008875:Middle Aged; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity