Abstract
Background: Autism disorders have increased over the last years. Autism is a neurological growth disorder associated with social communication disorders, growth retardation, and repetitive behaviors, along with serious consequences for children and families. The purpose of this research was to evaluate the relationship between parental mental disorders and autism among the children of West Azerbaijan Province.
 
 Methods: This research was a case-control study in which the case group subjects were selected among the parents with autistic children and control group subjects were selected among the relative parents with healthy children and non-relative parents with healthy children. Both case and control groups were matched in terms of gender, living place, and age of children. Finally, the data were analyzed using SPSS-16 (Chicago, IL, USA) software.
 
 Results: The current research results revealed that the frequency of mental diseases, including obsessive-compulsive, inter personality sensitivity, depression, anxiety, hostility, phobia, paranoid ideation, and psychotic disorder are different in fathers and mothers of the case and control groups. As Pvalue was lower than 0.05 in all scales, there was a significant relationship between the mental diseases of parents and the history of mental disorders in relatives and autism.
 
 Conclusion: The prevalence of mental disorders in relatives and having a medical history can be a warning sign of autism in children.
Highlights
Autism disorders have increased over the last years
This research is a case-control study in which the case group subjects were selected among the parents with autism children (76 mothers and 76 fathers) and control group subjects were selected among the relative parents with healthy children (149 fathers and 149 mothers) and non-relative parents with healthy children (77 fathers and 77 mothers) and the groups were compared in terms of the study variables
The initial form of this questionnaire was designed by Liminen and Curie in 1973 to show the psychological aspects of patients with somatic and mental diseases (Leathem & Babbage 2000).The Scl-90-R checklist is the symptoms of mental disorders in the self-reporting questionnaire for screening and measuring the symptoms of mental disorders
Summary
Autism disorders have increased over the last years. Autism spectrum disorders with delayed or abnormal functioning occur at least in one of the areas of social interaction, the language used in social imaginative or symbolic communication (Yazdani et al, 2017). Autism is a neurological growth disorder associated with social communication disorders, growth retardation, and repetitive behaviors, along with serious consequences for children and the families (Ha et al, 2015; Lei et al, 2018). It has been investigated in various studies (MAKHADIYEVA, 2018). Autism is a neurological growth disorder associated with social communication disorders, growth retardation, and repetitive behaviors, along with serious consequences for children and families. Conclusion: The prevalence of mental disorders in relatives and having a medical history can be a warning sign of autism in children
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