Journal article
Predicting outcome for borderline personality disorder
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to identify variables predictive of the psychosocial outcomes of borderline patients 2 years following an acute psychiatric hospitalization. Of the initial 88 inpatients scoring positive for the Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines (DIB), 65 (73.8%) were reinterviewed, 14 (15.9%) refused, five (5.7%) were unable to be located, and four (4.6%) suicided. The dropouts (n = 19) were significantly more likely to be …
Authors
Links PS; Mitton JE; Steiner M
Journal
Comprehensive Psychiatry, Vol. 31, No. 6, pp. 490–498
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
November 1990
DOI
10.1016/0010-440x(90)90063-x
ISSN
0010-440X