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Borderline personality among outpatients seen by a pain management specialist
Randy A Sansone1, J David Sinclair, Michael W Wiederman
1Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio and Kettering Medical Center, Ohio, USA. Randy.sansone@khnetwork.org
Objective:
We examined the prevalence of borderline personality disorder among a sample of outpatients who were being initially evaluated by a pain management specialist.
Method:
Using two self-report measures for borderline personality disorder, the borderline personality scale of the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire-4 (PDQ-4) and the Self-Harm Inventory (SHI), we explored prevalence rates of this Axis II disorder in a sample of 117 participants.
Results:
According to the PDQ-4 and the SHI, 9.4% and 14.5% of participants, respectively, met the criteria for borderline personality, with 6.8% meeting criteria on both measures.
Conclusions:
In this insured population of pain patients, rates of borderline personality, as determined by both measures, were comparable to rates of borderline personality in the general population.
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