201. Quality of life in youth with Tourette's syndrome and chronic tic disorder.
- Author
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Storch EA, Merlo LJ, Lack C, Milsom VA, Geffken GR, Goodman WK, and Murphy TK
- Subjects
- Activities of Daily Living psychology, Adaptation, Psychological, Adolescent, Age Factors, Child, Child Behavior Disorders diagnosis, Child Behavior Disorders psychology, Female, Humans, Internal-External Control, Male, Personality Assessment, Personality Inventory, Sex Factors, Social Adjustment, Statistics as Topic, Quality of Life psychology, Tic Disorders psychology, Tourette Syndrome psychology
- Abstract
This study sought to examine quality of life (QoL) in clinic-referred children and adolescents (n = 59, M age = 11.4+/-2.6 years) with a chronic tic disorder. The QoL scores for tic patients were lower than for healthy controls but higher than for the psychiatric sample on the majority of domains. Children's self-reported QoL scores and a measure of tic severity were moderately and inversely correlated. Parent reports of their child's QoL were weakly related to tic severity. Correlations between parent and child ratings of QoL for children ages 8 to 11 years were generally higher than those for youth ages 12 to 17 years. Finally, externalizing behavior moderated the relations between tic severity and parent-rated QoL, such that tic severity was significantly associated with parent-rated QoL for children with below average externalizing symptoms but not for children 3with above average externalizing symptoms.
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- 2007
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