title: Grouping Youth With Similar Symptoms: A Person-Centered Approach to Transdiagnostic Subgroups.
abstract: 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.
  
  
  
  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 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.
  
  
  
  Latent profile analysis provides an alternative method for exploring transdiagnostic subgroups within clinic-referred samples.
authors.affiliation: Bowling Green State University.
authors.forename: F Tony
authors.initials: FT
authors.lastname: Bonadio
authors.affiliation: Bowling Green State University.
authors.forename: Morgan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dynes
authors.affiliation: Bowling Green State University.
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lackey
authors.affiliation: Bowling Green State University.
authors.forename: Carolyn
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tompsett
authors.affiliation: Bowling Green State University.
authors.forename: Kelly
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Amrhein
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000145:classification*; D001526:Behavioral Symptoms / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000145:classification*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents; D057566:Self Report
keywords: Ohio Scales; latent profile analysis; person-centered analysis; reporter discrepancies; symptom profiles; transdiagnostic