Table 5.

Frequency of psychiatric disorders in parents of children with nail biting

Disorder	Father (N = 37)		Mother (N = 58)
	n	%	n	%
Major depressive disorder	13	35.1	27	46.6
Bipolar mood disorder	1	2.7	2	3.4
Generalized anxiety disorder	0	0.0	3	5.2
Obsessive compulsive disorder	0	0.0	3	5.2
Tic disorder	0	0.0	0	0.0
Nail biting	3	8.1	8	13.8
Post traumatic disorder	1	2.7	0	0.0
Pervasive developmental disorder	1	2.7	0	0.0
Mother with at least one the above psychiatric disorder	-	-	33	56.8
Father with at least one the above psychiatric disorder	17	45.9	-	-