بررسي فراواني اختلالات روان پزشكي در فرزندان بيماران با اختلال دوقطبي و مقايسه با گروه شاهد

Compare Frequency of Psychiatric disorders in off-springs of Bipolar patients to control group

bipolar patients. Materials and Methods This is a case control study. 184 children of 58 bipolar parents and 185 children of 57 control parents participated in the study, all them Were between the ages of 8 ana 15 years. Diagnosis was made by two psychiatrist based on DSiV.-iV criteria and using K-SADS anc1 SADS Results Psychiatric disorder weic more common in bipolar patiens offspring than control group Affective disorders were the mos: common diagnosis, (16 times) ADHD were the next one (5.57), and substance abuse (3.46), Antisocial personality disorder (5.75), Anxiety disorder (2.5) down the rate. (pv=0/000) Conclusion the results of this study suggest that children of bipolar parents have an increased risk of developing psychiatric disorder, the children of bipolar patients need to be screened for psychiatric symptoms and referred for psychiatric evaluation and treatment