Network analysis of pediatric eating disorder symptoms in a treatment-seeking, transdiagnostic sample.

ABSTRACT: Classifying eating disorders in youth is challenging in light of developmental considerations and high rates of diagnostic migration. Understanding the transactional relationships among eating disorder symptoms, both across the transdiagnostic spectrum and within specific diagnostic categories, may clarify which core eating disorder symptoms contribute to, and maintain, eating-related psychopathology in youth. We utilized network analysis to investigate interrelationships among eating disorder symptoms in 636 treatment-seeking children and adolescents (90.3% female) ages 6-18 years (M age = 15.4 ± 2.2). An undirected, weighted network of eating disorder symptoms was created using behavioral and attitudinal items from the Eating Disorder Examination. Across diagnostic groups, symptoms refle

SUBMITTER: Goldschmidt AB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5851474 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature