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Diagnostic classification of eating disorders in children and adolescents: how does DSM-IV-TR compare to empirically-derived categories?
Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - 1 Mar 2010
Eddy Kamryn T, Le Grange Daniel, Crosby Ross D, Hoste Renee Rienecke, Doyle Angela Celio, Smyth Angela, Herzog David B
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OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to empirically derive eating disorder phenotypes in a clinical sample of children and adolescents using latent profile analysis (LPA), and to compare these latent profile (LP) groups to the DSM-IV-TR eating disorder categories. METHOD: Eating disorder symptom data collected from 401 youth (aged 7 through 19 years; mean 15.14 +/- 2.35 years) seeking eating disorder...
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