Parent death in relation to age and parental age at birth in psychiatric patients and general population controls.

Birtchnell, John

doi:10.1136/jech.23.4.244

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“…We are primarily concerned only with those studies which present data: thus important theoretical papers (e.g. Birtchnell, 1969Birtchnell, , 1974 must be largely ignored.…”

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Parental death in childhood and risk of adult depressive disorders: a review

1980

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SYNOPSISThe authors review the evidence that parental death in childhood predisposes to depressive disorders in later life. The findings in general are quite inconsistent; this is due in part to the methodological limitations of most studies, principally that of inadequate control of potentially confounding variables. Where experimental and control samples were most rigorously matched, no association was found between childhood parental bereavement and depression in later life. Parental death in childhood appears to have little effect on adult depressive morbidity.

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