Grouping Youth With Similar Symptoms: A Person-Centered Approach to Transdiagnostic Subgroups.
J Clin Psychol
; 72(7): 676-88, 2016 07.
Article
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-26918406
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES:
The present study extracted symptom profiles based on parent and youth report on a broad symptom checklist. Profiles based on parent-reported symptoms were compared to those based on adolescent self-report to clarify discrepancies.METHOD:
The current study used archival data from 1,269 youth and parent dyads whose youth received services at a community mental health center. The mean age of the sample was 14.31 years (standard deviation = 1.98), and the youth sample was half male (50.1%) and primarily Caucasian (86.8%). Latent profile analysis was used to extract models based on parent and self-reported emotional and behavioral problems.RESULTS:
Results indicated that a 5-class solution was the best fitting model for youth-reported symptoms and an adequate fit for parent-reported symptoms. For 46.5% of the sample, class membership matched for both parent and youth.CONCLUSION:
Latent profile analysis provides an alternative method for exploring transdiagnostic subgroups within clinic-referred samples.Key words
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Behavioral Symptoms
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Child Behavior
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Adolescent Behavior
Type of study:
Diagnostic_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Limits:
Adolescent
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Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
En
Journal:
J Clin Psychol
Year:
2016
Document type:
Article