Supplemental Table 6
Statistically significant associations between parental illness and YSR scores of male cohort members after weighting the data
Assessment Parental somatic illness occurring between ages 8 and 16 years of cohort members
Parental illness
Yes No
n YSR
mean (SD)
n YSR
mean (SD) p- value
Cohen’s d
p- valuea
B-Hpb
MOTHER
YSR tot Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases 33 16.8 (9.9) 3009 22.0 (13.8) 0.032 -0.37 0.019 0.171 Diseases of the respiratory system 108 19.2 (9.8) 2933 22.0 (13.9) 0.005 -0.20 0.025 0.040 Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and
connective tissue
263 23.6 (13.9) 2779 21.8 (13.8) 0.038 0.13 0.068 0.152
Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes
125 24.5 (15.8) 2917 21.8 (13.7) 0.032 0.20 0.040 0.171
External causes of morbidity and mortality 63 18.4 (9.1) 2979 22.0 (13.9) 0.003 -0.26 0.047 0.048
YSR int Diseases of the respiratory system 108 5.3 (3.8) 2928 6.4 (5.4) 0.004 -0.21 0.022 0.064
YSR ext Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases 33 7.0 (4.6) 2991 9.1 (6.2) 0.051 - - -
Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue
259 9.9 (6.5) 2765 9.0 (6.2) 0.021 0.14 0.024 0.168
Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes
124 10.2 (7.0) 2900 9.0 (6.2) 0.031 0.19 0.037 0.165
External causes of morbidity and mortality 63 7.7 (4.5) 2961 9.1 (6.2) 0.017 -0.23 0.080 0.272 FATHER
YSR tot Neoplasms 46 18.4 (12.2) 2996 22.0 (13.8) 0.080 - - -
YSR int Neoplasms 46 4.7 (4.1) 2990 6.4 (5.3) 0.024 -0.26 0.033 0.192
External causes of morbidity and mortality 9 3.8 (2.5) 3027 6.4 (5.3) 0.015 -0.49 0.136 0.240 YSR ext No significant associations
Abbreviation: SD, standard deviation; YSR, Youth Self-Report; tot, total scores; int, internalizing scores; ext, externalizing scores
a Adjusted for all adjusting factors: socioeconomic status of either parent, score of Rutter Children’s Behavior Questionnaire scale B2, parental psychiatric diagnoses
b Benjamini-Hochberg corrected p-value
