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Intergenerational transmission of health beliefs in somatoform disorders

Exploratory study

The Park Hospital for Children, Oxford

PAUL G. RAMCHANDANI, DPhil, MRCPsych and ALAN STEIN, FRCPsych

Section of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital, Oxford

CHRISTOPHER BASS, MA, MD, FRCPsych

Department of Psychological Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK

Correspondence: Dr Tamsin Marshall, The Park Hospital for Children, Old Road, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LQ, UK. Email: tamsinmarshall{at}doctors.org.uk

Declaration of interest None. Funding detailed in Acknowledgements.

Children of parents with a range of psychiatric disorders are at increased risk of developing psychological disturbance themselves. There is growing evidence that this includes children who have parents with a chronic somatoform disorder. The health beliefs of children with a parent with a somatoform disorder were compared with those of children with a parent with an organic physical disorder. Children of parents with somatoform disorder scored higher on bodily preoccupation and disease phobia scales and their health beliefs showed similarities to the beliefs of their parents.