Serious mental illness and disrupted caregiving for children: a nationwide, register-based cohort study

The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
Anne RanningMerete Nordentoft

Abstract

To study how often severe psychiatric disorders adversely affect a person's ability to be a parent, indicated by the child being placed in out-of-home care. This study was conducted in 2013 as a prospective, register-based cohort study covering all first-born singletons in the entire Danish population born after 1982 (N = 782,092) and their parents. Rates of out-of-home placement of children with parents diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or unipolar depression, according to the criteria of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 8th revision (ICD-8) and ICD, 10th revision (ICD-10), were analyzed. The rates were compared with those of children with parents from the general population. A parental diagnosis of schizophrenia was the most prominent risk factor for children placed outside the home, with an accumulated risk for being placed in care at some point during childhood-40% for children with mothers with schizophrenia and 20% for children with fathers with schizophrenia. Children of mothers (incidence rate ratio [IRR] = 23.75; 95% CI, 20.94-26.93) and fathers (IRR = 7.85; 95% CI, 6.67-9.25) with a diagnosis of schizophrenia had the overall highest IRRs of placement i...Continue Reading

Citations

Nov 4, 2016·Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry·Anne RanningMerete Nordentoft
Jan 26, 2018·European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry·Giulia SignoriniUNKNOWN MILESTONE Consortium
Apr 19, 2018·Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica·Simone N VigodTrine Munk-Olsen
Feb 16, 2019·Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology·Katrine RøhderSusanne Harder
Nov 30, 2018·The Psychiatric Quarterly·Mary V Seeman
Mar 20, 2019·Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology·Wanda M TempelaarManon H J Hillegers
Sep 11, 2020·Psychiatric Services : a Journal of the American Psychiatric Association·Laysha OstrowMark S Salzer
Nov 12, 2021·Nordic Journal of Psychiatry·Louise Holm MadsenMaj Vinberg

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