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Association of parental Communication Deviance with offspring's psychiatric and thought disorders. A systematic review and meta-analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2020

R. Roisko ,
K.-E. Wahlberg ,
J. Miettunen  and
P. Tienari
R. Roisko*
Affiliation:
Oulu University Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, PO Box 26, 90029OYS, Finland
K.-E. Wahlberg
Affiliation:
University of Oulu, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, PO Box 5000, 90014Oulun Yliopisto, Finland Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
J. Miettunen
Affiliation:
University of Oulu, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, PO Box 5000, 90014Oulun Yliopisto, Finland
P. Tienari
Affiliation:
University of Oulu, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, PO Box 5000, 90014Oulun Yliopisto, Finland
*
*Corresponding author. Tel.: +358 40 727 2180; fax: +358 8 333 167. E-mail address:rroisko@paju.oulu.fi (R. Roisko).
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Abstract

Elevated number of parental Communication Deviance (CD) has been connected with psychiatric and thought disorders in their offspring. However, no earlier systematic efforts have been made to review this issue. The aim of this study was to survey the existing literature systematically and perform a meta-analysis of this association. A literature search for published and unpublished observational studies on the association of parental Communication Deviance with psychopathology in the offspring was conducted. Multiple electronic databases were searched (from 1960 to 2012) and the reference lists of the resulting publications were scanned. The findings were pooled using random effect meta-analysis. A total of 19 relevant papers were found and accessed. The results showed that a high level of parental CD is associated with schizophrenia spectrum disorders in the offspring. A large overall effect size (0.79) was found in the meta-analysis. No meta-analysis could be performed on the association of parental CD with an offspring's thought disorders, but the results suggest that such an association may exist. Parental Communication Deviance is associated with schizophrenia spectrum disorders in the offspring. High parental CD could be treated as an indicator of a risk of developing a schizophrenia spectrum disorder, at least among high-risk groups.

Keywords

CDGene-environment interactionSchizophrenia spectrumSystemic modelVulnerability-stress theory
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Review
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European Psychiatry , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , January 2014 , pp. 20 - 31
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Copyright © 2013 Elsevier Masson SAS

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