Empirically derived patterns of psychiatric symptoms in youth: A latent profile analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

By conceptualizing domains of behavior transdiagnostically, the National Institute of Mental Health Research Domain Criteria (NIMH RDoC) initiative facilitates new ways of studying psychiatric symptoms. In this study, latent profile analysis (LPA) was used to empirically derive classes or patterns of psychiatric symptoms in youth that transect traditional nosologic boundaries.

Methods

Data were drawn from 509 children and adolescents (ages 7-18 years; mean age =12.9 years; 54% male) who were evaluated in the NIMH Emotion and Development Branch and were heterogeneous with respect to presenting diagnoses and symptoms. Youth and/or their parents completed measures of several core symptom dimensions: irritability, anxiety, depression, and attention deficit hyperactivi

SUBMITTER: Kircanski K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5360533 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature