TY - JOUR
T1 - Parental bipolar disorder, family environment, and offspring psychiatric disorders
T2 - A systematic review
AU - Stapp, Emma K.
AU - Mendelson, Tamar
AU - Merikangas, Kathleen R.
AU - Wilcox, Holly C.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health [ T32MH014592 ; PI : Peter P. Zandi] and in part by the Intramural Research Program at the National Institute of Mental Health .
Funding Information:
Funding:, This work was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health [T32MH014592; PI: Peter P. Zandi] and in part by the Intramural Research Program at the National Institute of Mental Health. Role of the Funding Sources:, The funding sources had no involvement in study design; collection, analysis, or interpretation of data; in writing of the report; and in the decision to submit the article for publication.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020
PY - 2020/5/1
Y1 - 2020/5/1
N2 - Background: Our objective was to systematically review non-experimental studies of parental bipolar disorder (BD), current family environment, and offspring psychiatric disorders to identify characteristics of family environment associated with parental BD and risk for offspring psychiatric disorders. Methods: CINAHL, Embase, PsycINFO, and PubMed were searched using MeSH terms to identify studies on offspring of BD parents published through September 2017. We followed PRISMA guidelines and used the Risk of Bias Assessment Tool for Nonrandomized Studies (RoBANS). We calculated prevalence ratios and 95% confidence intervals to compare offspring psychiatric disorders within and across studies. Results: Of 10,454 unique documents retrieved, we included 13 studies. The most consistent finding was lower parent-reported cohesion in families with a BD parent versus no parental psychiatric disorders. Family environment did not differ between BD parents and parents with other disorders. Offspring of BD parents had higher prevalence of psychiatric disorders than offspring of parents without psychiatric disorders but did not differ from offspring of parents with other disorders. Families with a BD child had higher conflict than families without a BD child. Limitations: Comparisons between studies were qualitative. A single reviewer conducted screening, data extraction, and bias assessment. Conclusions: Family environment in families with a BD parent is heterogeneous. The pattern of findings across studies also suggests that family problems may be associated with parental psychiatric illness generally rather than parental BD in particular. Few studies included offspring-reported measures. Given the association of family conflict with offspring mood disorders, further study is merited on children's perceptions of the family environment in the BD high-risk context.
AB - Background: Our objective was to systematically review non-experimental studies of parental bipolar disorder (BD), current family environment, and offspring psychiatric disorders to identify characteristics of family environment associated with parental BD and risk for offspring psychiatric disorders. Methods: CINAHL, Embase, PsycINFO, and PubMed were searched using MeSH terms to identify studies on offspring of BD parents published through September 2017. We followed PRISMA guidelines and used the Risk of Bias Assessment Tool for Nonrandomized Studies (RoBANS). We calculated prevalence ratios and 95% confidence intervals to compare offspring psychiatric disorders within and across studies. Results: Of 10,454 unique documents retrieved, we included 13 studies. The most consistent finding was lower parent-reported cohesion in families with a BD parent versus no parental psychiatric disorders. Family environment did not differ between BD parents and parents with other disorders. Offspring of BD parents had higher prevalence of psychiatric disorders than offspring of parents without psychiatric disorders but did not differ from offspring of parents with other disorders. Families with a BD child had higher conflict than families without a BD child. Limitations: Comparisons between studies were qualitative. A single reviewer conducted screening, data extraction, and bias assessment. Conclusions: Family environment in families with a BD parent is heterogeneous. The pattern of findings across studies also suggests that family problems may be associated with parental psychiatric illness generally rather than parental BD in particular. Few studies included offspring-reported measures. Given the association of family conflict with offspring mood disorders, further study is merited on children's perceptions of the family environment in the BD high-risk context.
KW - Bipolar disorder
KW - Family environment
KW - High-risk
KW - Parenting, family climate
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jad.2020.03.005
DO - 10.1016/j.jad.2020.03.005
M3 - Review article
C2 - 32158009
AN - SCOPUS:85080974473
SN - 0165-0327
VL - 268
SP - 69
EP - 81
JO - Journal of Affective Disorders
JF - Journal of Affective Disorders
ER -