Mothers and fathers do not accurately report each other's psychopathology

It is unclear whether information obtained from a one parent can be used to infer the other parent's history of psychopathology. Two hundred and one parental dyads were asked to complete psychiatric interviews. Based on maternal report, non-participating husbands/ fathers had higher rates than participating fathers of psychiatric illness. For fathers who did participate, maternal report did not match direct interview of paternal psychopathology with sensitivities less than 0.40 and positive predictive values of 0.33 to 0.74. Psychopathology may be over-represented among fathers who do not participate in research. Mother report of paternal symptoms is not an effective proxy. Alternative methods need to be developed to: i) improve father participation or ii) identify psychiatric status in fathers who do not participate in research projects.

• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Mental Illness

• Publication date

  2012-07-26

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.4081/mi.2012.e14PMID 25478115PMCID 4253373
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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