Citation

Onchev G, Ganev K. Eur. J. Psychiatry 2000; 14(1): 26-31.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, Departmento de Psiquiatria de la Facultad de Medicina de Zaragoza)

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Abstract

160 patients from 3 psychiatric settings were assessed after initial screening with the Personality Disorder Examination, the PSE-10 symptom checklist, the Global Assessment of Functioning Scale and the Alcohol module of SCAN. Axis II diagnoses were as follows: 61 with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), 39 with other personality disorders and 60 without a diagnosis. Period prevalence results for BPD (3.8% for the closed-door clinic, 5.2% for the day centre, and 1.4% for the outpatient service) show that it appears to be a rarer condition for Bulgaria than in other Western populations. The symptoms with highest discriminative power for BPD and the factor structure for the 'borderline' syndrome are presented. Comorbidity results show that acute psychoses and dysthymia are significantly more frequent among patients with BPD. Although Axis II diagnoses predict moderately some of the Axis 1 diagnoses, the two diagnostic sets of 'personality' and 'illness' appear to be relatively independent.

Language: en

Keywords

adult; article; Borderline personality; borderline state; Bulgaria; Comorbidity; dysthymia; Epidemiology; human; impulsiveness; major clinical study; prevalence; self evaluation; suicide; symptomatology; syndrome; Syndrome validity