Manic symptoms in youth: dimensions, latent classes, and associations with parental psychopathology.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The purpose of the study was to define the latent structure of parent-reported manic symptoms and their association with functional impairment and familial risk in a community sample of Brazilian children.

Method

We screened for manic symptoms in a community sample of 2,512 children 6 to 12 years of age. Parents of children with "episodes of going abnormally high" completed a detailed mania section (n = 479; 19.1%). Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) tested a solution with "Under-Control (UC)" and "Exuberant (EX)" dimensions, investigating the severity (threshold) and factor loading of each symptom. We also used latent class analysis (LCA) to evaluate the latent categorical structure of manic symptoms. Associations of these latent constructs with psychiatric comorb

SUBMITTER: Pan PM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4477846 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature