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COMPARING FAMILY ACCOMMODATION IN PEDIATRIC OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER, ANXIETY DISORDERS, AND NONANXIOUS CHILDREN: Research Article: Accommodation in Childhood OCD and Anxiety

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Lebowitz, Eli R., Scharfstein, Lindsay A., Jones, Johnna·2014·Depression and Anxiety

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BACKGROUND: Family accommodation describes ways in which parents modify their behavior to help a child avoid or alleviate distress caused by emotional disorders. Accommodation is associated with increased symptom severity, lower functioning, and poorer treatment outcomes. Accommodation is prevalent in childhood obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and anxiety disorders (ADs) but no studies have compared accommodation in these groups or compared them to healthy controls to ascertain if accommodation is prevalent in the general population. This study addresses these gaps by comparing patterns of accommodation, factors that maintain accommodation, and its relation to symptom severity in OCD and AD, relative to healthy controls. METHOD: We directly compared reports of accommodation to childhood OCD (N = 26) and AD (N = 31), and a comparison group of nonanxious (NA) children (N = 30). Mothers completed measures of accommodation (Family Accommodation Scale (FAS)/Family Accommodation Scale-Anxiety (FASA)), anxiety (Screen for Childhood Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders-Parent Report (SCARED-PR)), and OCD (Children's Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (CYBOCS)). RESULTS: Family accommodation is prevalent among mothers of children with OCD and AD. Few differences were found between the two clinical groups who reported more accommodation (F[2,84] = 23.411, P < .001, partial η(2) = .358), greater distress (F[2,84] = 24.050, P < .001, partial η(2) = .364), and more consequences of not accommodating (F[2,84] = 18.967, P < .001, partial η(2) = .311), than the NA group. Accommodation was associated with severity of anxiety in AD (r = .426, P = .017) and OCD (r = .465, P = .017), but not in the NA group. CONCLUSIONS: Findings highlight family accommodation as a phenomenon that applies broadly and in a similar manner to children with AD and OCD. Evaluating accommodation provides useful information for clinical care and is an important part of the assessment of children with AD and OCD.

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Authors
Lebowitz, E. R., Scharfstein, L. A., & Jones, J.
Affiliations
  • Yale University (US)
  • The University of Texas at Austin (US)
Corresponding author
Lebowitz, Eli R.
Venue
Depression and Anxiety
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2014-02-22
Volume
31
Issue
12
Pages
1018-1025
ISSN
1091-4269 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W1893528228
Cited by
128
References
45
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FWCI
13.77
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Depression and Anxiety (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
Keywords
family accommodation, pediatric obsessive-compulsive disorder, childhood anxiety disorders, parental accommodation, symptom severity, maternal distress
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, Child, Child Behavior Disorders, Family, Female, Humans, Male, Mothers, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Surveys and Questionnaires, Severity of Illness Index, Confounding Factors, Epidemiologic, Treatment Outcome

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