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They adjusted “for the potential confounding effects of parental history of mental disorders...”

• VLM 6y ago
  To quote: "Adjustment for parental mental illness also likely represented an under-adjustment as most parental psychiatric disorders that were treated in outpatient clinics (without inpatient admission) were not recorded, and all of those that were treated in primary care (without inpatient or outpatient treatment) were unregistered. Furthermore, although register-based mental disorder diagnoses have been shown to have good validity [33, 34], not all mental disorders have been validated." So if they exclude parental outpatient treated disorders, and exclude parental primary care treated disorders, all that seems to be left over is the rounding errors of self diagnosis and stays in mental hospitals, which would seem to be a huge issue for the conclusion. The conclusion section doesn't seem to relate to the results section and discussion section, so that's weird.
  • beauzo 6y ago
    I agree. I would expect genetics to be a fairly significant confounding variable.