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2018, Complex Disorders in Pediatric Psychiatry: A Clinician's GuideThe perpetrators of medical child abuse (Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy) – A systematic review of 796 cases
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2016, Paediatrics and Child Health (United Kingdom)Early recognition and management of fabricated or induced illness in children
2014, The LancetCitation Excerpt :In this study of 41 children (15 with failure to thrive through active withdrawal of food or alleged allergies) and 26 victims of fabricated or induced illness, six mothers had a factitious disorder, one had hypochondriasis, and 16 had a history of depression. Somatoform and factitious disorders are over-represented among perpetrators: in a study of 47 mothers, 30 of whom were active inducers, Bools and colleagues31 noted that the most probable diagnosis for 34 (72%) participants was a somatoform disorder (of whom 25 [74%] had a factitious disorder with physical symptoms). Similar findings were reported in a more recent study of 28 mothers (all with evidence of fabrication or induction of illness in children),24 in which somatoform disorders were reported in 57% of participants and factitious disorders in 64%, with co-occurrence of these disorders in 39% of participants.
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The first and second authors were supported by a grant (LE 121) from the Yorkshire Regional Health Authority.