Association between marital satisfaction of female patients with persistent depressive disorder, and their own and husbands' autism spectrum disorder or attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder traits.

The patients' ASD and ADHD traits may play a positive role in the marital satisfaction of female PDD patients, while their husbands' ADHD traits may play a negative role. For female PDD patients with low marital satisfaction, it may be important to consider whether their husbands have ADHD traits; if so, it may be necessary to develop intervention strategies focused on the traits for improving the low marital satisfaction. However, our conclusions are not sufficiently convincing.