ArticleEuropean child & adolescent psychiatry2019
The effect of the severity of parental alcohol abuse on mental and behavioural disorders in children.
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- Perceived parental alcohol problems and drinking patterns among adolescents in Sweden.Addictive behaviors reports · 2024Article
- Behind Closed Doors: The Hidden Realities of Indian Children Living With Alcohol-Dependent Parents.Cureus · 2024Article
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- Perceived problematic alcohol use in the family and adolescents' stress-related complaints: examining the buffering role of the school's degree of student focus as rated by its teachers.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Perceived parental alcohol problems and psychosomatic complaints among adolescents in Sweden.Addictive behaviors reports · 2023Article
- Promotive and risk factors for children's mental health-Finnish municipal policymakers' and leading officeholders' views.Health promotion international · 2023Article
- Children with problem-drinking parents in a Swedish national sample: is the risk of harm related to the severity of parental problem drinking?European journal of public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
Many studies have shown that children of alcohol abusing parents have a higher risk for mental and behavioural disorders compared to other children. Using a retrospective population-based cohort study, based on health care and social welfare registers that include children born in Finland in 1997 and their biological parents, we evaluated whether the severity of parental alcohol abuse is related to these disorders in children. We examined (1) differences in the incidence of mental and behavioural disorders over time among the children of parents with no alcohol problems, parents with less severe alcohol problems and parents with severe alcohol problems, and (2) associations between mother's and father's alcohol abuse and children's risk of disorders. Children were followed up until the age of 15. A diagnosis of mental or behavioural disorders during the follow-up was received by 15.4% of the boys and 9.0% of the girls. Both less severe alcohol abuse (HR = 1.36, 95% CI 1.14-1.61) and severe alcohol abuse (HR = 1.29, 95% CI 1.11-1.49) in mothers increased the risk of these disorders in their offspring. The corresponding figures among fathers were HR = 1.19, 95% CI 0.92-1.54 and HR = 1.16, 95% CI 1.02-1.32. Our results indicate that both maternal alcohol abuse and paternal alcohol abuse, regardless of severity, are associated with an increased risk of mental and behavioural disorders in children. It is crucial for professionals working with children to pay attention to all children whose parents have any alcohol abuse problems.
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