ArticleItalian journal of pediatrics2020
Clinical significance of family accommodation and parental psychological distress in a sample of children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder aged 8-17 years old.
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- Exploring mental health professionals' emotional responses with individuals diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder or psychopathy: a scoping review.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
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- Family Accommodation in Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: Investigating Prevalence and Clinical Correlates in the NordLOTS Study.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
- Pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder as a developmental disorder of cognitive-emotional control: a transdiagnostic and family-integrated perspective.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Review
- Investigating the relationship between sleep disturbances and psychopathology In children and adolescents with microdeletion of 22q11 chromosome: an exploratory study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Understanding the support needs of parents of children with obsessive-compulsive disorder: a qualitative descriptive study in the UK.BMC psychiatry · 2023Article
- Anxiety in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Clinical Characteristics and the Role of the Family.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Developments in pediatrics in 2020: choices in allergy, autoinflammatory disorders, critical care, endocrinology, genetics, infectious diseases, microbiota, neonatology, neurology, nutrition, ortopedics, respiratory tract illnesses and rheumatology.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2021Review
- Predictors of Parental Accommodation and Response Treatment in Young Children With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundFamily Accommodation (FA) refers to the involvement of family members (especially parents) in the compulsive behaviors of children and adolescents with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (e.g. modifying family routines or facilitating avoidance of obsessive-compulsive triggers). Many studies have examined the high prevalence of FA in this clinical population; however, less is known about its clinical significance and relationship to the individual psychological distress of parents. In our study, we investigated the clinical significance of FA examining its relationship with obsessive-compulsive symptomatology, functioning, anxiety and depressive symptoms in a clinical sample (n = 51) of children and adolescents with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) aged 8-17 years old and their parents, included to examine their individual psychological distress.
methodsThe sample was divided into two groups: the High Accommodation group (n = 36) and the Low Accommodation group (n = 15).
resultsResults demonstrated that children and adolescents in the OCD High Accommodation group reported major functional impairment in global (p = .001313), social (p = .000334) and role (p = .000334) domains, and higher depressive symptoms than the Low Accommodation group. Both fathers and mothers from the High Accommodation group reported a higher level of individual psychological distress compared to mothers and fathers from the Low Accommodation group (p = .040365).
conclusionsThe findings of this study show that FA is common in children and adolescents with OCD and it could cause not only an impairment of the patient's global, social and role functioning but also a high level of individual psychological distress in the single parent. The presence of FA should therefore be carefully investigated and considered in planning assessment and treatment of OCD in children and adolescents.
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