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Personality profile among primary care patients: experimenting with the Arabic IPDE ICD-10
E F El-Rufaie1, M Al-Sabosy, M S O Abuzeid
1Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates. elrufaie@uaeu.ac.ae
Objective:
To estimate the prevalence of personality disorder (PD) among primary health care (PHC) patients, and to investigate the characteristic features of the International Personality Disorder Examination, the ICD-10 module (IPDE ICD-10).
Method:
A sample (n = 158) PHC patients in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates (UAE) were interviewed by general practitioners (GPs) using the Arabic version of the IPDE ICD-10.
Results:
Patients interviewed were 82 males and 76 females. Definite PD was identified in 12.7%. Prevalence rates among males and females were 9.8 and 15.8% consecutively. Commonest personality disorders were the schizoid (5.1%), anankastic (4.4%) and the emotionally unstable, borderline type (3.8%). Comorbidity of PD was manifested by 30% of definite PD patients. The mean dimensional scores of definite and probable PD patients were 5.6 and 4.3 consecutively.
Conclusion:
The IPDE-ICD-10 is useful but relatively time consuming with repetition and need of rephrasing in some items. Dimensional measurement proved essential.
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