Parental age in child psychiatric clinic attenders.

• Parental age was detailed from medical records of all children treated or observed as inpatients at the Child and Youth Psychiatric University Clinic of Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1975, and compared with corresponding figures for parental age of children in the general population. Psychotic children and psychotic adolescents tended to have mothers (and fathers) who were older than average. Sixty per cent of mothers of psychotic children were 30 years or older at the time of birth of the child compared with 27% of children in the general population. Children with emotional disorders showed the same mean maternal age as average children in the population. It is suggested that children and adolescents with psychotic disorders have a higher level of "organic" background factors than children with other kinds of child psychiatric disorders.

Subject headings

MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP  -- Klinisk medicin -- Psykiatri (hsv//swe)

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES  -- Clinical Medicine -- Psychiatry (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Adolescent

Affective Symptoms

Genetics

Anorexia Nervosa

Genetics

Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity

Genetics

Child

Child Behavior Disorders

Genetics

Child

Preschool

Female

Humans

Intellectual Disability

Genetics

Male

Maternal Age

Mental Disorders

Genetics

Paternal Age

Psychophysiologic Disorders

Genetics

Psychotic Disorders

Genetics

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