Growing up with an ill parent: An examination of family characteristics and parental illness features.

Stoeckel, Maggie; Weissbrod, Carol S.

doi:10.1037/fsh0000140

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“…This indicates that it is not su cient to distinguish between mental and physical illness in future studies, but also the degree of impairment by the physical illness. This is in line with the Stoeckel & Weissbrod [8] who found that greater impact of the parental illness was negatively correlated with adolescent's depression, anxiety, and life satisfaction.…”

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“…Physical or mental illness may reduce the parental capacity [1] and result in role reversal, emotional and behavioral problems among the children, and lack of parent's attention [2][3][4]. Parental illness might even hamper the psychosocial development of the child and pose a potential risk to their mental and social functioning [5][6][7][8][9][10]. Moreover, parental illness have been associated with lower grade point average (GPA), higher risk of low educational achievement, and attenuated income in adulthood [11][12][13][14].…”

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Parental illness and life satisfaction among adolescents. A cross-sectional study of moderating effects of school climate indicators

Jørgensen¹,

Thygesen²,

Andersen³

et al. 2020

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Background A considerable proportion of adolescents grow up with a seriously or chronically ill parent. School climate is a strong predictor of life satisfaction. Moreover, studies indicate that school climate may operate as a protective factor for adolescents at-risk of low life satisfaction. We examine the relationship between parental illness and life satisfaction and the potential effect modification of the school climate on this association. Furthermore, we describe the use of student counselors among adolescent with and without ill parents. Methods Data include 9,565 students from lower secondary schools and youth education programs who participated in the cross-sectional survey Well-being Despite. Multilevel logistic regression models including joint effect analyses were performed. Results A total of 1,424 (14.9%) students had one or more ill parents. The odds ratio of low life satisfaction among adolescents was 1.21 (95% CI, 0.99-1.48) with a physically ill parent with no functional impairment, 1.70 (1.32-2.20) with a physically ill parent with functional impairment, 2.60 (2.01-3.35) with a mentally ill parent, and 3.05 (2.12-4.38) with more than one ill parents, compared to adolescents with no ill parents. Not being part of the classroom community, not trusting your teachers, and wanting more academic support from teachers was more frequent among adolescents with ill parents. Joint effect analysis did not show any buffering effect of school climate indicators in the associations between parental illness and life satisfaction among adolescents. The odds ratio of having talked to a student counselor ranged from 1.26 (1.03-1.54) for adolescents with a physically ill parent with no functional impairment to 2.42 (1.65-3.55) among adolescents with several ill parents, compared to no ill parents. Conclusions Parental illness is strongly associated of low life satisfaction among adolescents, especially among adolescent with a mentally ill parent or several ill parents. For both adolescents with and without an ill parent, negative school climate indicators were strongly associated with low life satisfaction and were more frequent among adolescents with ill parents. Unexpectedly, school climate did not help children of ill parents to achieve a higher life satisfaction, over and above the effect on life satisfaction for all children.

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confidence: 99%

Parental illness and life satisfaction among adolescents. A cross-sectional study of moderating effects of school climate indicators

Jørgensen¹,

Thygesen²,

Andersen³

et al. 2020

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“…Items selected assessed relevant stressful experiences among young adults, including life-threatening illness or injury of a family member or close friend (Stoeckel and Weissbrod, 2015), accidents or death of a family member or close friend (Rostila et al, 2016), interpersonal events (e.g., break-up with a romantic partner, serious betrayal by someone other than one’s partner; Buitron et al, 2016), physical or sexual assault (Trotman et al, 2015; Viswanathan et al, 2014), and legal problems (e.g., time spent in jail; Salekin, 2008). …”

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First onset of suicidal thoughts and behaviours in college

Mortier

Demyttenaere

Auerbach

et al. 2017

Journal of Affective Disorders

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Background College students are a worldwide increasing group of young people at risk for suicidal thoughts and behaviours (STB). However, no previous studies have prospectively investigated the first onset of STB during the college period. Methods Using longitudinal data from the Leuven College Surveys, 2,337 (response rate [RR]=66.6%) incoming freshmen provided baseline data on STB, parental psychopathology, childhood-adolescent traumatic experiences, 12-month risk for mental disorders, and 12-month stressful experiences. A total of 1,253 baseline respondents provided data on 12-month STB in a two-year annual follow-up survey (conditional RR=53.6%; college dropout adjusted conditional RR=70.2%). Results One-year incidence of first-onset STB was 4.6–6.4%. Effect sizes of the included risk factors varied considerably whether viewed from individual-level (ORs 1.91–17.58) or population-level perspective (PARPs 3.4–34.3%). Dating violence prior to the age of 17, physical abuse prior to the age of 17, and 12-month betrayal by someone else than the partner were most strong predictors for first-onset suicidal ideation (ORs=4.23–12.25; PARPs=8.7–27.1%) and plans (ORs=6.57–17.58; PARPs=15.2–34.3%). Multivariate prediction (AUC=.84–.91) revealed that 50.7–65.7% of first-onset STB cases were concentrated in the 10% at highest predicted risk. Limitations As this is a first investigation of STB onset in college, future studies should use validation samples to test the accuracy of our multivariate prediction model. Conclusions The first onset of STB in college appears to be higher than in the general population. Screening at college entrance is a promising strategy to identify those students at highest prospective risk, enabling the cost-efficient clinical assessment of young adults in college.

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“…were assessed using 12 items taken from well-validated screeners, 35–37 and included relevant stressful experiences among young adults, including life-threatening illness or injury of a family member or close friend 38 , accidents or death of a family member or close friend, 39 interpersonal events (e.g., break-up with a romantic partner, serious betrayal by someone other than one’s partner) 40 , physical or sexual assault, 41, 42 and legal problems (e.g., time spent in jail.) 43 …”

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A Risk Algorithm for the Persistence of Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors During College

Kiekens¹,

Auerbach²,

Cuijpers³

et al. 2017

J. Clin. Psychiatry

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OBJECTIVE The primary aims are to: (a) identify patterns of suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STB) during college among students with lifetime pre-matriculation STB and (b) develop a risk-screening algorithm for persistence of pre-matriculation STB during college. METHODS Data come from the Leuven College Surveys, a series of prospective cohort studies of all incoming KU Leuven University freshmen. In the academic year 2012 and 2013, 4,889 incoming freshmen (73.2% response rate) provided baseline data on socio-demographic variables, childhood-adolescent traumatic experiences, 12-month stressful experiences, 12-month mental disorders, 12-month STB, and severity markers of pre-matriculation STB. A total of 2,566 students (69.3% conditional response rate) participated in 12- and 24-month follow-up surveys during the first two college years. RESULTS Thirteen percent (weighted n=535) of incoming freshmen reported lifetime pre-matriculation STB. Of those, 28.0% reported 12-month STB in one follow-up assessment and another 27.7% in both follow-up assessments. High persistence of STB (i.e., 12-month STB in two follow-up assessments) was most strongly associated with severity markers of pre-matriculation STB, with odds ratios in the 2.4–10.3 range and population attributable risk proportions between 9.2% and 50.8%. When aiming for less than 50% of false positive cases (PPV=54.4%), a multivariate predictive risk algorithm (cross-validated AUC=0.79) situated 59.9% of highly persistent cases among the 30% respondents with highest baseline predicted risk. CONCLUSION An individualized web-based screening approach is a promising strategy to identify students at the onset of university who may be at high risk for STB persistence during their academic career.

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Growing up with an ill parent: An examination of family characteristics and parental illness features.

Abstract: These findings extend our understanding of the impact of parental illness on late adolescents' psychosocial functioning. Results could have clinical applications for psychosocial interventions in children and families coping with chronic illness. (PsycINFO Database Record

Cited by 20 publications

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Parental illness and life satisfaction among adolescents. A cross-sectional study of moderating effects of school climate indicators

Parental illness and life satisfaction among adolescents. A cross-sectional study of moderating effects of school climate indicators

First onset of suicidal thoughts and behaviours in college

A Risk Algorithm for the Persistence of Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors During College

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