By Shiow-Wen Yang, Mary A. Kernic, Beth A. Mueller, et al., JAMA Pediatrics, June 22, 2020
Key Points
Question Are young children whose parents have severe mental illness, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder, at greater risk of injury compared with children of parents without severe mental illness?
Findings In this cohort study of the 1 999 322 singleton births in Taiwan from 2004 to 2014, children of parents with severe mental illness had higher rates of injury events, injury hospitalization, and injury death in early childhood compared with children of parents without severe mental illness.
Meaning In this study, parental severe mental illness was associated with increased risk of several child injury outcomes during early childhood, suggesting that effective treatment, parenting support, and injury prevention strategies for parents with severe mental illness may be needed.
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