Clinical heterogeneity of feeding and eating disorders: using personality psychopathology to differentiate "simplex" and "complex" phenotypes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To investigate Feeding and Eating Disorders (FED) heterogeneity based on the co-occurrence of FED symptoms and personality psychopathology, on the hypothesis that empirical profiles would not confirm current FED categories but identify unique phenotypes carrying different levels of clinical complexity.

Methods

Latent Profile Analysis profiled FED patients based on the assessment of both FED symptoms, through the Eating Disorders Inventory, third version (EDI-3), and personality characteristics, through the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2. Then, profiles were compared across socio-demographic and clinical characteristics.

Results

Among 109 eligible patients, three FED profiles were identified: (i) FED simplex (low eating symptoms, absence of dy

SUBMITTER: Colizzi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11616308 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature