By Dennis Thompson, HealthDay, Image: screenshot from article/Adobe Stock, February 24, 2025
A parent’s mental health appears to influence their kids’ chances of developing anxiety, ADHD and other behavioral disorders, a new study says.
Children were more than four times as likely to develop severe ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder) if their caregiver had poor or fair mental health, compared to kids of caregivers in excellent mental health, researchers found.
Likewise, kids’ chances of severe anxiety were nearly six times higher if their caregiver reported poor mental health, according to results published late last year in the journal Pediatric Reports.
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