Network analysis of mood symptoms in adolescents with or at high risk for bipolar disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Network analyses of psychopathology examine the relationships between individual symptoms in an attempt to establish the causal interactions between symptoms that may give rise to episodes of psychiatric disorders. We conducted a network analysis of mood symptoms in adolescents with or at risk for bipolar spectrum disorders.

Methods

The sample consisted of 272 treatment-seeking adolescents with or at high risk for bipolar disorder who had at least subsyndromal depressive or (hypo)manic symptoms. Based on symptom scores assessed via semi-structured interviews, we constructed the network of depressive and manic symptoms and identified the most central symptoms and symptom communities within the network. We used bootstrapping analyses to determine the reliability of

SUBMITTER: Weintraub MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7085972 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature