The British Journal of Psychiatry (2006) 188: 288-289. doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.105.010447
© 2006 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
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SHORT REPORTS

Impact of psychiatric disturbance on identifying psychiatric disorder in relatives: study of mothers and daughters

HELEN F. COELHO and PETER J. COOPER

Winnicott Research Unit, School of Psychology, University of Reading, Reading, UK

LYNNE MURRAY

Correspondence: Professor Peter J. Cooper, Winnicott Research Unit, School of Psychology, University of Reading, 3 Earley Gate,Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AL, UK. E-mail p.j.cooper{at}rdg.ac.uk

Declaration of interest None. Funding detailed in Acknowledgements.

Previous studies have suggested that collecting psychiatric data on relatives in family studies by asking probands to provide information on them leads to a bias in estimates of morbidity risk, because probands’accounts are influenced by their own psychiatric histories. We investigated this in a UK sample and found that daughters’anxiety disorder histories did not influence their reports of anxiety disorder in mothers, but their history of mood disorder/alcohol dependence made them more sensitive in predicting mood disorder/alcohol dependence in mothers.