| Autor: |
Zimmerman, Mark, Multach, Matthew D, Dalrymple, Kristy, Chelminski, Iwona |
| Zdroj: |
British Journal of Psychiatry; Dec2016, Vol. 209 Issue 6, pN.PAG-N.PAG, 1p |
| Abstrakt: |
A total of 3674 psychiatric out-patients were evaluated with a semi-structured diagnostic interview for DSM-IV borderline personality disorder (BPD). The affective instability criterion had a sensitivity of 92.8%, higher than the sensitivities of the other eight BPD criteria. The negative predictive value of the affective instability criterion was 99%. We recommend that clinicians screen for BPD in the same way that they screen for other psychiatric disorders: by enquiring about a single feature of the disorder (i.e. affective instability), the presence of which identifies most patients with the disorder and the absence of which rules out the disorder. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Databáze: |
Complementary Index |
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