Gestational Risks and Psychiatric Disorders Among Indigenous Adolescents

Authors

Les B. Whitbeck, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Devan M. Crawford, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

2009

Citation

Community Ment Health J. 2009 February ; 45(1): 62–72.

Comments

© Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2008

Abstract

This study reports on the effects maternal prenatal binge drinking, cigarette smoking, drug use, and pregnancy and birth complications on meeting criteria for psychiatric disorders at ages 10–12 and 13–15 years among 546 Indigenous adolescents from a single culture in the northern Midwest and Canada. Adolescent DSM-IV psychiatric disorders were assessed with the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children-Revised (DISC-R). Results indicate that maternal behaviors when pregnant have significant effects on adolescent psychiatric disorders even when controlling for age and gender of adolescent, family per capita income, living in a single mother household, and adolescent reports of mother’s positive parenting.