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Table 7 Family history of major mental disorders

From: A case series of 223 patients with depersonalization-derealization syndrome

Have your mother or your father ever been diagnosed with one of the following mental disorders?

DDS (n = 223)

Only Depressed Group (n = 1129)

Age and sex adjusted OR (95 % CI), p

FH of depression

30.7 % (67)

23.0 % (1536)

1.16 (0.83, 1.62), p = 0.379

FH of anxiety disorder

14.7 % (32)

7.9 % (157)

1.94 (1.21, 3.11), p = 0.006

FH of schizophrenia

1.4 % (3)

1.6 % (31)

0.76 (0.21, 2.73), p = 0.76

FH of bipolar disorder

1.8 % (4)

2.5 % (49)

0.67 (0.22, 2.02), p = 0.67

FH of any of the above disorders

35.8 % (78)

25.9 % (516)

1.29 (0.94, 1.79), p = 0.117

  1. FH, family history; age and sex adjusted logistic regression analysis, odds ratio (OR), 95 % confidence interval (95 % CI); DDS, patients with depersonalization-derealization syndrome