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.
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.
Authors: Ji-Woo Suk; Katrina M Poppert Cordts; William Garvey; Arica Lerdahl; Brigette Soltis-Vaughan; Alexandra Bohn; Ryan Edwards; Robert James Blair; Soonjo Hwang Journal: Front Psychiatry Date: 2022-04-06 Impact factor: 5.435