Life event precipitants of adolescent anorexia nervosa
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Interviews with subjects suffering from anorexia nervosa and their parents indicate that negative life events are apparently unrelated to the onset of anorexia nervosa. Less than 50% of the affected subjects reported a moderately negative life event in the year before the onset of anorexia, and only 25% reported highly negative life events. Their overall negative event rating was similar to the community control group. The psychiatric control group reported more moderate and severe negative events than the community control group. Anorexia nervosa may be associated with chronic adversities rather than negative life events, or negative events may be underreported.
Publication Name: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0021-9630
Year: 1996
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Family functioning: a correlate of diabetic control?
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A study of families of adolescents with diabetes showed about 50% of adolescents had poor diabetic control and the adolescents with well- and poorly-controlled diabetes differed in parental involvement in their diabetic regime. Little association between blood sugar control and family functioning was observed. Although families suffering from diabetes did not differ from families of matched community controls, they did rate their general functioning to be worse than community controls.
Publication Name: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0021-9630
Year: 1995
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Familial aggregation of spelling disability
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Increased rates of spelling disability are found in the parents and sibs of spelling disabled probands. Different diagnostic criteria fail to influence the rate of affectedness of the first-degree relatives of the spelling disabled probands. The number of affected parents and the affectedness of proband sibs is unrelated. Female probands have higher rate of spelling disabled first-degree relatives than their male counterparts.
Publication Name: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0021-9630
Year: 1996
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