Clinical correlates of parenting stress in children with Tourette syndrome and in typically developing children

The Journal of Pediatrics
Stephanie B StewartBradley L Schlaggar

Abstract

To determine the impact of tic severity in children with Tourette syndrome on parenting stress and the impact of comorbid attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) symptomatology on parenting stress in both children with Tourette syndrome and typically developing children. Children with diagnosed Tourette syndrome (n=74) and tic-free typically developing control subjects (n=48) were enrolled in a cross-sectional study. Parenting stress was greater in the group with Tourette syndrome than the typically developing group. Increased levels of parenting stress were related to increased ADHD symptomatology in both children with Tourette syndrome and typically developing children. Symptomatology of OCD was correlated with parenting stress in Tourette syndrome. Parenting stress was independent of tic severity in patients with Tourette syndrome. For parents of children with Tourette syndrome, parenting stress appears to be related to the child's ADHD and OCD comorbidity and not to the severity of the child's tic. Subthreshold ADHD symptomatology also appears to be related to parenting stress in parents of typically developing children. These findings demonstrate that ADHD symptomatology impa...Continue Reading

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Jan 13, 2016·Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience·Deanna J GreeneBradley L Schlaggar
Mar 31, 2016·Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology·Liang-Jen WangSusan Shur-Fen Gau
Jan 9, 2016·F1000Research·Cheryl A Richards, Kevin J Black
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