Parent's psychopathological profiles and adolescent offspring's substance use disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Substance use disorders (SUD) represent one of the most important public health problems which has an onset in adolescence. Although substantial data exist on adolescent substance use, studies examining the role of parental psychopathological profiles on adolescent offspring SUD are lacking. Thus, this study aimed to identify parental psychopathological profiles, and to examine the extent to which these profiles are associated with SUD in their offspring.

Method

Our analytic sample comprised 5887 adolescents (48.60% boys; M = 15.07 years, SD = 1.46) from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A), whose biological parents responded to the Parent Self-Administered Questionnaire. Parental psychopathological profiles were identified by

SUBMITTER: Essau CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7572638 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature