Authors: Eniko Kiss Krisztina Kapornai Ildikó Baji László Mayer Ágnes Vetró
Publish Date: 2009/01/22
Volume: 18, Issue: 5, Pages: 265-273
Abstract
An important question in child psychiatry is the agreement between parents and children We studied mother–child concordance about the quality of life of children QoL We hypothesized that mothers of depressed children rate lower QoL than children for themselves while mothers of nondepressed children rate better QoL that interinformant agreement is higher in the nondepressed sample and finally that agreement increases with age of the childMothers of depressed children rated lower QoL than their children while mothers of nondepressed children rated higher QoL than their children Agreement was low in both samples but higher in the controls Interinformant agreement was only influenced by depressionOur results show that mothers relate more serious negative effects to childhood depression than their children and rate less problems for their nondepressed children compared to selfreports Mother–child agreement is negatively influenced by depression which further stresses the importance of obtaining reports from the child and at least one parent in order to understand the subjective experiences caused by the illness
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