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Educational achievements of children of parents with multiple sclerosis:A nationwide register-based cohort study
- Source :
- Moberg, J Y, Magyari, M, Koch-Henriksen, N, Thygesen, L C, Laursen, B & Soelberg Sørensen, P 2016, ' Educational achievements of children of parents with multiple sclerosis : A nationwide register-based cohort study ', Journal of Neurology, vol. 263, no. 11, pp. 2229-2237 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-016-8255-4, Moberg, J Y, Magyari, M, Koch-Henriksen, N, Thygesen, L C, Laursen, B & Soelberg Sørensen, P 2016, ' Educational achievements of children of parents with multiple sclerosis : A nationwide register-based cohort study ', Journal of Neurology. Supplement, vol. 263, no. 11, pp. 2229-2237 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-016-8255-4
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- Little is known about the impact of parental multiple sclerosis (MS) on offspring's educational attainment. The objective of the study was to examine educational achievements in offspring of parents with MS compared with matched children of parents without MS in a nationwide register-based cohort study. Children of all Danish-born residents with onset between 1950 and 1986 were identified by linking the Danish Multiple Sclerosis Registry with the Civil Registration System. Twins, children with MS, and emigrated persons were excluded. The reference cohort consisted of randomly drawn individuals from the Civil Registration System without parental MS matched 8:1 to the MS offspring by sex and year of birth. Information about education was linked to the cohorts from nationwide educational registries. We included 4177 children of MS parents and 33,416 reference persons. Children of MS parents achieved statistically significant higher average grades than the reference cohort in their final exam of basic school with a mean grade difference of 0.46 (95 % CI 0.22-0.69; p = 0.0002). We found no difference in achievement of educational level above basic school (OR 1.04; 95 % CI 0.98-1.10; p = 0.20). There was a trend toward more MS offspring attaining health-related educations (OR 1.10; 95 % CI 1.00-1.21; p = 0.06). In conclusion, children of MS parents showed a small advantage in grade point average in final examinations in basic school, and they more often tended toward health-related educations. This study revealed no negative consequences of parental MS on grades and highest educational level achieved.
- Subjects :
- Register based
Adult
Male
Parents
medicine.medical_specialty
Pediatrics
Multiple Sclerosis
Offspring
Denmark
Danish
Cohort Studies
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
0302 clinical medicine
Age Distribution
Child of Impaired Parents
Epidemiology
medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Registries
Sex Distribution
Probability
business.industry
Multiple sclerosis
Age Factors
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
language.human_language
Educational attainment
Neurology
Cohort
language
Educational Status
Female
Neurology (clinical)
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Demography
Cohort study
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Moberg, J Y, Magyari, M, Koch-Henriksen, N, Thygesen, L C, Laursen, B & Soelberg Sørensen, P 2016, ' Educational achievements of children of parents with multiple sclerosis : A nationwide register-based cohort study ', Journal of Neurology, vol. 263, no. 11, pp. 2229-2237 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-016-8255-4, Moberg, J Y, Magyari, M, Koch-Henriksen, N, Thygesen, L C, Laursen, B & Soelberg Sørensen, P 2016, ' Educational achievements of children of parents with multiple sclerosis : A nationwide register-based cohort study ', Journal of Neurology. Supplement, vol. 263, no. 11, pp. 2229-2237 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-016-8255-4
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....11d9c9ed9df83818dde1564331ecc8b5