Interviewers who were unaware of child status used a standardised mental state assessment to determine
the rate of affective disorder in the mothers of these children.
Two cross-sectional studies showed that adolescents with a depressed parent suffered from psychosocial maladjustment [38] and experienced a significantly higher
rate of affective disorder than adolescents of nonaffective psychiatric control parents [39].
Not exact matches
Statistically significant hazard ratios for specific groups
of psychiatric
disorders were found for schizophrenia and psychoses (1.27, 1.16 - 1.38),
affective disorders (1.32, 1.25 - 1.39), anxiety and other neurotic
disorders (1.37, 1.32 - 1.42), mental and behavioural syndromes including eating
disorders (1.13, 1.04 - 1.24), mental retardation (1.28, 1.17 - 1.40), mental development
disorders including autism spectrum
disorders (1.22, 1.16 - 1.28), and behavioural and emotional
disorders including attention deficit hyperactivity
disorder (ADHD)(1.40, 1.34 - 1.46), when compared with
rates in naturally conceived children.
With the more recent understandings
of the ways reduced sunlight affects many people, bringing to our attention extreme reactions, such as SAD (Seasonal
Affective Disorder) and high
rates of suicide in latitudes
of Earth that have fewer annual days / hours
of sunlight, we now have support for Lessing's «far - fetched» propositions.
The best study on the population prevalence
of mental illnesses done in mainland China using the Present State Examination (PSE) also found extremely low
rates of depression (a combined point prevalence
of 1.4 % for all
affective disorders and neurasthenia), 1 but such results should to be viewed with caution.
Among studies7,11 - 28 published since 1980 (summary table available from authors),
rates for affective disorder varied from 2 % 15 to 88 %.7 Rates of substance use disorders ranged from 13 % 14 to88 %.7 This disparity in findings may be because youth were sampled at various points in the juvenile justice system (eg, at admission, after convict
rates for
affective disorder varied from 2 % 15 to 88 %.7
Rates of substance use disorders ranged from 13 % 14 to88 %.7 This disparity in findings may be because youth were sampled at various points in the juvenile justice system (eg, at admission, after convict
Rates of substance use
disorders ranged from 13 % 14 to88 %.7 This disparity in findings may be because youth were sampled at various points in the juvenile justice system (eg, at admission, after conviction).