Mapping disordered eating symptoms in the ABCD Study through the Eating Disorder Symptom Index

Eating disorders (EDs) are serious psychiatric conditions that typically onset during adolescence and are often marked by a chronic and severe illness course. Capturing ED symptoms as they emerge is critical for charting risk markers and associated outcomes to inform early intervention and treatment efforts. The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD(R)) Study is one such key study that could accelerate these efforts, but has been limited to date by a lack of clear, clinically informed definitions capturing youth at risk for ED-related concerns. The current manuscript aims to address thi

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