Table 1. Effects of child mental disorders on their siblings.
Author | Year of publication | Sample size | Child mental disorder | Age/birth ordera | Sex/gender | Familial factorsb | Child mental disorder characteristicsc | Sibling outcome | ||
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Child with mental disorder | Sibling | Child with mental disorder | Sibling | |||||||
aIs the healthy sibling older or younger than the child with the mental disorder.
b Examples include the number of children in the family, two-parent vs. single-parent, parent mental disorders, socioeconomic status.
c Examples include behavioural meltdowns, aggression, depressive episodes.