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Do recognizable lifetime eating disorder phenotypes naturally occur in a culturally asian population? A combined latent profile and taxometric approach.
European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association - 1 May 2015
Thomas Jennifer J, Eddy Kamryn T, Ruscio John, Ng King Lam, Casale Kristen E, Becker Anne E, Lee Sing
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BACKGROUND: We examined whether empirically derived eating disorder (ED) categories in Hong Kong Chinese patients (N = 454) would be consistent with recognizable lifetime ED phenotypes derived from latent structure models of European and American samples. METHOD: We performed latent profile analysis (LPA) using indicator variables from data collected during routine assessment, and then applied taxometric analysis...
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