depressive and anxiety symptoms in mothers of children withadhd compared to the control group

objective: attention deficit/ hyperactivity disorder is a common psychiatric disorder with an early onset. investigation reveals that mothers of children with adhd higher levels of depressive and anxiety symptomatology than do mothers of comparison children. the aim of the present study was to compare anxiety and depressive symptoms in the mothers with adhd children with control group .
method: fifty mothers of the adhd children aged between 6 to 12 whom diagnosed on the basis of interviews held with psychiatrist in the first referral to sheikh child psychiatry clinic. the control group consisted of mothers of fifty children without any psychiatric disorder. the selected mothers were evaluated with beck depression inventory (bdi) and state-trait anxiety inventory interviewed for the basic psychiatric disorder,. data were analyzed using t-test, anova, chi-square statistical tests.
results: our data showed the 20% and 10% of mothers had mild and moderate depression. in control group, mild and moderate depression was reported 6/7% and 3/3%, respectively. the differences between depression and trait anxiety in mothers of adhd children and control group were significant. there was a correlation between intensity of the trait and state anxiety and the depression in mothers with intensity of adhd in their children but the relation was not significant .
conclusion: the present study suggests that the intensity of depression and trait anxiety in mothers of adhd children are more than the control group .