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Maternal psychopathology and offspring mental health service utilization in adolescents without mental disorders: a national representative survey

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We investigated whether maternal psychopathology predicts offspring mental health service utilization in adolescents without mental disorders. We used weighted data (N = 2317) from NCS-A participants (age: 13–18 years) who did not meet DSM-IV criteria for any lifetime mental disorder. Adolescent mental disorders were assessed with the WHO CIDI. Maternal psychopathology was obtained by self-report. Adolescent mental health service use was assessed with the Service Assessment for Children and Adolescents. Substantial associations between maternal psychopathology and mental health service use in offspring without mental disorders were found between affective disorders and the mental health/medical specialty (hazard ratio (HR) = 2.49, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.60–3.90) and any service sector (HR = 2.14, CI = 1.45–3.16), anxiety disorders and any service sector (HR = 1.63, CI = 1.13–2.35), behavior disorders and the school (HR = 3.69, CI = 1.39–9.77) and any service sector (HR = 2.81, CI = 1.12–7.07), substance use disorders and the mental health/medical specialty (HR = 3.75, CI = 1.75–8.03), the school (HR = 3.17, CI = 1.43–7.02), and any service sector (HR = 3.66, CI = 2.00–6.70), and any mental disorder and the mental health/medical specialty (HR = 2.10, CI = 1.34–3.30) and any service sector (HR = 2.03, CI = 1.40–2.92). Results were comparable when restricting analyses to offspring with no indication of suicidality and no more than three life events during the past 12 months. The likelihood of service use was higher among offspring of mothers with mental disorders, compared to mothers without mental disorders. Considering maternal mental disorder status may help to identify subjects at risk of overtreatment.

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This project was financed by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF, to MT, project no. PZ00P1_137023). Additionally, MT and GM receive funding from the Korea Research Foundation within the Global Research Network Program under project no. 2013S1A2A2035364, and GM received SNSF funding under project no. 100014_135328. Currently GM receives funding from the Stanley Thomas Johnson Stiftung & Gottfried und Julia Bangerter-Rhyner-Stiftung (project no. PC_28/17 and PC_05/18), from the Swiss Cancer League (Krebsliga Schweiz) under project no. KLS-4304-08-2017, from the Research Foundation of the International Psychoanalytic University (IPU) Berlin, and from Gesundheitsförderung Schweiz under project no. 18.191. The funding sources had no involvement in study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of the data; in the writing of the report; and in the decision to submit the article for publication. The National Comorbidity Survey Replication Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A) was funded by: United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute of Mental Health (U01-MH60220); United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01-DA12058-05); United States Department of Health and Human Services. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Grant 044780); John W. Alden Trust.

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    Esther Stalujanis, Angelo Belardi & Marion Tegethoff

  2. Division of Clinical Psychology and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, International Psychoanalytic University, Stromstrasse 1, 10555, Berlin, Germany

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Stalujanis, E., Meinlschmidt, G., Belardi, A. et al. Maternal psychopathology and offspring mental health service utilization in adolescents without mental disorders: a national representative survey. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 29, 1207–1216 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-019-01429-y

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