Parental mental disorders and offspring schizotypy in middle childhood: an intergenerational record linkage study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To investigate relationships between distinct schizotypy risk profiles in childhood and the full spectrum of parental mental disorders.

Methods

Participants were 22,137 children drawn from the New South Wales Child Development Study, for whom profiles of risk for schizophrenia-spectrum disorders in middle childhood (age ~ 11 years) were derived in a previous study. A series of multinomial logistic regression analyses examined the likelihood of child membership in one of three schizotypy profiles (true schizotypy, introverted schizotypy, and affective schizotypy) relative to the children showing no risk, according to maternal and paternal diagnoses of seven types of mental disorders.

Results

All types of parental mental disorders were associated with membership

SUBMITTER: O'Hare K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10562332 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature