Table 1 Overview of major topics in the themes in the overall research on ‘parental mental illness’, in articles published from 1999 to 2018; and across the research areas
Research area/ disorder group | ||||||||
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Theme | Complete search | Substance use | Psychotic | Mood | Anxiety | Personality | Behavioral syndromes | Generic Psychiatric |
Expectant mothers and early motherhood | Prescription drugs use during pregnancy; fetal monitoring, maternal and neonatal care; birth outcomes; eating and weight; sleep problems | Pregnancy and pregnancy complications, fetal monitoring, maternal and neonatal outcomes, opioid dependence, opioid maintenance treatment, neonatal abstinence syndrome; health services, health care delivery, health programs treatment | Prescription drugs, pregnancy complications, birth outcomes, birth parameters, prenatal, postnatal and maternal care, comorbidity | Prescription drug use during pregnancy, pregnancy complications, prenatal exposure, fetal monitoring; birth, maternal and neonatal outcomes, treatment | Prescription drug use during pregnancy, pregnancy complications, prenatal exposure, birth, maternal and neonatal outcomes, maternal diseases | *Covered in the theme ‘diagnoses, symptoms and treatment’ | Pregnancy, complications, birth outcomes, birth parameters, postpartum mental health, SES, maternal care, neonatal care, pregnancy risk factorssocial support | Pregnancy, treatment, prescription drugs, prenatal exposure, birth outcomes, birth parameters, severe child outcome, maternal mental health, risk factors in pregnancy, demographics, SES, social support |
Substance use and abuse | *Covered in the theme ‘SES, demography and health services’ | Tobacco smoking, cannabis and marijuana, drug use and abuse; race and ethnicity | * Covered in the theme ‘diagnoses, symptoms and treatment’ | *Covered in the theme ‘Child–parent interaction and context’ | *Covered in the theme ‘Diagnoses, symptoms and treatment’ | *Covered in the themes ‘diagnosis, symptoms and treatment’ and ‘animal and genetics’ | *Covered in diagnosis theme: ‘other mental disorders’ | Substance use and abuse, risk factors, SES, mental disorders, comorbidity |
SES and support practices | Socioeconomic, demographic, and cultural factors; substance use and abuse; violence and crime | *SES covered in ‘diagnoses, symptoms and treatment’ | Socioeconomic, demographic, cultural and ethnic factors, social support, health services and alcohol consumption | Socioeconomic, demographic, ethnic and cultural factors; health services, health behavior and counseling; social support | * Covered in themes ‘animal and genetics’ and ‘diagnosis, symptoms and treatment’ | *SES occurs in the theme ‘expectant mothers and early motherhood’ | *SES covered in ‘diagnoses, symptoms and treatment’ | |
Biomedical research | Genetics, environment, gene-environment, animals, prenatal exposure, stress drugs, brain, brain development, cognition, | In utero exposure, cocaine and cocaine dependence, animals, brain development; genetic and environmental factors | Two distinct themes 1. animal and brain studies: animal, brain, pregnancy, prenatal exposure, environmental factor, cognitive outcomes | Animal and stress; genetic and environmental factors; brain and cognitive development and disorders | Animals, stress, maternal deprivation; brain and cognition; genetic and environmental factors and disease predisposition; prenatal exposure | Psychopathy, brain, genetics, families, SES, problem drinking, prenatal exposure, risk factor | Animals, brain, genetics, environment, treatment, health care, prescription drugs, symptoms, | Genetics, animals, brain, prenatal drug exposure, mental disorders, environmental factors |
2. genetics genetic risk, heredity, gene-environment interaction | ||||||||
Diagnoses, symptoms and treatment | Health care -services, access, utilization, policies, programs and quality; treatment, social support, quality of life | *Treatment mainly covered in expectant mothers and early motherhood; and diagnoses and symptoms in child-parent interaction and context | Mental disorders, comorbidity, social support, treatment, child parent relation, substance use and abuse, SES, demography | Development disorders, psychotic disorders, hospitalization | Various mental disorders, comorbidity, substance use disorders, violence, including child abuse | Mental disorders, treatment, health services, comorbidity, substance abuse, pregnancy and pregnancy complications, violence | Three distinct themes 1. eating disorders, parental behavior, health information, child parent relation, families, lifestyle, coping | Mental disease, treatment, health care, child parent relation, behavior, SES, demography, social support |
2. Sleep disorders, behavior, learning, genetics, cognitive outcomes, health | ||||||||
3. Other mental disorders, comorbidity, substance abuse, violence | ||||||||
Child–parent interaction and context | Child parent relation, various parental and child behaviors, attachment and adjustment, mental disorders, comorbidity, family functioning and social contexts | Alcohol use and abuse, drinking behavior; mental disorders, comorbidity, violence; parenting, child parent relation, behaviors, demography, SES, social support | *Covered in the theme ‘diagnoses, symptoms and treatment’ | Child parent relation, various parental and child behaviors, including externalizing behaviors comorbidity, substance use and abuse, violence, suicide, family history | Child-parent relation, family functioning and communication, various phobia and anxiety, various treatments and therapies, externalizing behavior and disorders, autism spectrum disorders | Child parent relation, families, behaviors, personality, child development, violence, social support | *Covered in the sub-theme ‘eating disorders’ under ‘diagnoses, symptoms and treatment’ | *Covered in the theme ‘diagnoses, symptoms and treatment’ |