Kohl, Lea Teresa ORCID: 0000-0003-4312-7645 (2023). Familial Factors in Children and Adolescents With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD): Associations With Symptom Severity and Comorbid Symptoms. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.
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Abstract
As the primary, immediate environment of children and adolescents, the family is associated with protective and risk factors for child development, especially child mental health. This familial impact on children’s mental health may be attributable to the transmission of genetic material, the parental shaping of the child’s environment, and the interaction of genetic and environmental factors. One of the most common mental disorders in childhood and adolescence is attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). This cumulative dissertation presents two studies that examined the associations between several family characteristics and (a) the severity of ADHD symptoms as well as (b) the presence of comorbid oppositional symptoms in children and adolescents with a clinical diagnosis of ADHD. In the first study, a meta-analysis was conducted. A systematic search was run for primary studies that examined associations between various familial factors and child ADHD symptom severity. Suitable primary studies were then quantitatively summarized in a meta-analysis and also qualitatively summarized in a supplemental review. The second study analyzed data from a multicenter intervention study of school-aged children with ADHD (ESCAschool), using structural equation modeling (SEM) to examine the relationships among four familial factors and their respective effects on ADHD and comorbid oppositional symptoms in children. Both studies identified family characteristics that were associated with increased severity of child ADHD symptoms. Additionally, the findings of the second study support the hypothesis that the economic or (psycho-)social burden of families is associated with parental mental health problems and impairments in parenting, and that these adverse family characteristics are in turn related to increased externalizing behaviors in children. The findings of the cumulative dissertation emphasize the importance of familial factors for the mental health of children and adolescents.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD thesis) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-707971 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date: | 18 August 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of Publication: | Köln | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Language: | English | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Faculty: | Faculty of Medicine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine > Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie > Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie des Kindes- und Jugendalters | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Subjects: | Psychology Medical sciences Medicine |
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Date of oral exam: | 7 August 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Refereed: | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/70797 |
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