@article{ref1,
title="The longitudinal pattern of suicidal behaviour in borderline personality disorder: a prospective follow-up study",
journal="Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica",
year="1994",
author="Friis, S. and Mehlum, Lars and Karterud, S. and Vaglum, P.",
volume="90",
number="2",
pages="124-130",
abstract="The aim was to study the longitudinal course of suicidal behaviour and ideation in patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) compared with patients with other diagnoses. Ninety-seven patients (41 BPD, 33 other personality disorders, 23 no personality disorder) consecutively admitted to a day unit were given a prospective personal interview follow-up with evaluations at admission, discharge and at follow-up after 2-5 years. Even when controlled for Axis I disorders, BPD patients showed significantly more often a lifetime history of suicide attempts. BPD patients with a history of suicide attempts were more suicidal at index admission, continued to be so over the follow-up period and differed systematically in an unfavourable direction from other BPD patients on the major outcome measures. BPD patients without suicidal behaviour had an outcome nearly as good as non-BPD patients, and only 41% of them retained the BPD diagnosis at follow-up. Suicidal behaviour and ideation are highly prevalent in BPD. These suicidal expressions are of an enduring nature and seem as a diagnostic criterion to enhance the predictive capacity of the BPD diagnosis.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0001-690X",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}