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Personal and Family Psychiatric History (FAM MH)🔗

Table Namepex_bm_psych
ConstructPersonal and Family Mental Health
Study VisitsV01
Administration Child-specific: No
Respondent: Pregnant Participant
Method: Self-administered in-person (5 min estimated duration)
Quality Control Response distributions reviewed for outliers
Please review the Known Issues & Pending Updates page for updates that may affect data use.

Instrument Details🔗

The HBCD FAM MH assesses self-reported diagnoses and mental health conditions of the biological mother, biological father, and biological maternal and paternal grandmother and grandfather. It was created from combining and modifying items from the following instruments:

Family History Assessment Module
(FHAM)
  • Alcohol use [alc]
  • Drug use [drug]
  • Depression [dep]
  • Mania [man]
  • Schizophrenia [sch]
All of Us Personal and Family Health History
(All of Us)
Collected for only the biological mother [bm] and biological father [bf] and excludes questions about age of diagnosis, treatment, and medications
  • Alcohol Use Disorder [001]
  • Anxiety disorder or panic disorder [002]
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder [003]
  • Bipolar disorder [004]
  • Depressive disorder [005]
  • Drug or Substance Use Disorder [006]
  • Schizophrenia [007]
  • Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) [008]

Future publications should note that this measure is a combination of these and that this is not a scored scale, but simply descriptive for family psychiatric history.

HBCD Modification Details â–¸

FHAM
The FAM MH excludes the following items from the original FHAM instrument:

  1. Items related to Antisocial Personality Disorder [ASP] and Undifferentiated Psychiatric Disorder [UPD]
  2. Items regarding treatment for mental or emotional problems, hospitalization, and suicide
Additionally, the original response options (parents, grandparents, siblings, aunts, uncles, and cousins) were restricted to:
  • Biological mother [001] & Biological father [002]
  • Biological maternal: grandmother [003] & grandfather [004]
  • Biological paternal: grandmother [005] & grandfather [006]

All of Us
The original response options (mom, dad, sibling, daughter, son, grandparent) were limited to biological mother [bm] and biological father [bf].

References🔗

Rice, J. P., Reich, T., Bucholz, K., Neuman, R. J., Fishman, R., Rochberg, N., Hesselbrock, V. M., Numberger, J. I., Shuckit, M. A., & Begleiter, H. (1995). Comparison of Direct Interview and Family History Diagnoses of Alcohol Dependence. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 19, 1018-1023. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1530-0277.1995.tb00983.x