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Rates, types, and psychosocial correlates of legal charges in adolescents with newly diagnosed bipolar disorder
- Source :
- Bipolar Disorders. 9:339-344
- Publication Year :
- 2007
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2007.
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Abstract
- Barzman DH, DelBello MP, Fleck DE, Lehmkuhl H, Strakowski SM. Rates, types, and psychosocial correlates of legal charges in adolescents with newly diagnosed bipolar disorder. Bipolar Disord 2007: 9: 339-344. © Blackwell Munksgaard, 2007 Objectives: To examine the rates, types, and psychosocial correlates of legal charges in adolescents with newly diagnosed bipolar disorder (BD). Methods: Adolescents (n = 80), between the ages of 12 and 21 years (mean = 15.6, standard deviation - 2.3), hospitalized for their initial manic or mixed episode of BD, were evaluated for the incidence of prior juvenile offending (i.e., legal charges). We examined potential psychosocial correlates associated with legal charges using chi-square, (t-tests, and discriminant function analyses to determine if there were differences between adolescents who did and did not offend prior to their first manic episode. Results: Juvenile antisocial behaviors were common (55%) for adolescents with newly diagnosed BD. Discriminant function analysis revealed that older age at first treatment (p < 0.01), sexual activity over the previous month (p < 0.05), therapeutic use of stimulants (p < 0.05), and anxiety disorders were the most significant factors to differentiate between bipolar adolescents who offended and those who did not (Wilks' lambda = 0.80, p < 0.005). Conclusions: Our findings indicate that there are identifiable psychosocial correlates associated with antisocial behaviors in adolescents with newly diagnosed BD that may improve our understanding of juvenile antisocial behaviors.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Conduct Disorder
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Bipolar Disorder
Adolescent
Sexual Behavior
Statistics as Topic
Poison control
Comorbidity
Risk Factors
Injury prevention
Juvenile delinquency
medicine
Humans
Longitudinal Studies
Bipolar disorder
Child
Psychiatry
Biological Psychiatry
Ohio
Incidence (epidemiology)
Age Factors
Antisocial Personality Disorder
medicine.disease
Anxiety Disorders
Hospitalization
Psychiatry and Mental health
Cross-Sectional Studies
Juvenile Delinquency
Anxiety
Central Nervous System Stimulants
Female
Crime
medicine.symptom
Psychology
Psychosocial
Mania
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 13995618 and 13985647
- Volume :
- 9
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Bipolar Disorders
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4443e7d493c1ce78faef88bf9a08287e