Assessing the effect of Parental Psychiatric disorder on Adolescents using Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale-A Case Study

To study various aspects of psychological vulnerabilities among adolescent children of psychologically ill parents, having psychological disturbances due to primary-malfunction or drug addiction. In this case-control study through Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS), 116 parents with children aged 15–18 years were included that 58 of them with psychiatric health problems were selected and 58 of them were from healthy. Data reliability was tested using Cronbach and permutation test was used to compare case and control group to find the effect of parental psychiatric illness on adolescents through BPRS. The data reliability using Cronbach was found to be 0.94, indicating and the fraction of a test score attributable to error was less. The correlation between excitement and anxiety was maximum and was minimum between un cooperativeness’ and guilt feelings; the values being 0.696, and 0.155 respectively. The case and control groups were significantly different, as test statistic, -9.266 with, p- value< 0.001. Also, there was significant difference between each item of two groups e.g. test statistic corresponding to anxiety, depression and excitement-7.922, -7.426, -7.729 respectively with p-value < 0.001. The study concluded that the psychiatric disorders were found to be more than a two to three fold in offspring of psychiatric ill compared with healthy parents.