title: Personality profile of parents of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The present study was carried out aiming to identify the personality profile of parents of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
  
  
  METHODS
  This study is of a descriptive, analytic, cross-sectional type in which parents of 6-12-year-old children with ADHD who were referred to the Bozorgmehr Psychiatric Clinic, affiliated with Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, were enrolled. ADHD was diagnosed according to the criteria of DSM-IV-TR and a quasi-structured diagnostic interview (K-SADS-PL). The personality profile of the parents was assessed with the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-III (MCMI-III).
  
  
  RESULTS
  According to the findings of this study, the most common personality problems based on the assessment scales in the MCMI-III belonged to the clinical patterns of depressive personality in 43 persons (25.3%), histrionic personality in 34 persons (20%), and compulsive personality in 29 persons (17.1%). According to discriminant analysis, four scales of somatoform, sadistic, dependence, and though disorder were direct and antisocial scale was reverse significant predictors of membership in the women group.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  According to the findings of this pilot study, personality disorders are prevalent in parents of ADHD children and mothers suffer from personality disorders more than fathers.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Psychiatry Research Center (CPRC), Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
authors.forename: Hossein
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Dadashzadeh
authors.affiliation: Clinical Psychiatry Research Center (CPRC), Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran ; Department of Psychiatry, Razi Mental Hospital, El Goli Boulevard, Tabriz, East Azerbaijan 51677, Iran.
authors.forename: Shahrokh
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Amiri
authors.affiliation: Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
authors.forename: Ahmad
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Atapour
authors.affiliation: Clinical Psychiatry Research Center (CPRC), Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
authors.forename: Salman
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Abdi
authors.affiliation: Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran.
authors.forename: Mahan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Asadian
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D010551:Personality; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D015995:Prevalence; D055815:Young Adult