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Stability and Change in Personality Disorder Symptoms in 1-Year Follow-up of Depressed Adolescent Outpatients




TekijätStrandholm T, Kiviruusu O, Karlsson L, Pankakoski M, Pelkonen M, Marttunen M

KustantajaLIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS

Julkaisuvuosi2017

JournalJournal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Tietokannassa oleva lehden nimiJOURNAL OF NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASE

Lehden akronyymiJ NERV MENT DIS

Vuosikerta205

Numero1

Aloitussivu15

Lopetussivu22

Sivujen määrä8

ISSN0022-3018

eISSN1539-736X

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1097/NMD.0000000000000623


Tiivistelmä
We investigated stability and change in personality disorder (PD) symptoms and whether depression severity, comorbid clinical psychiatric disorders, and social support predict changes in personality pathology among adolescent outpatients. The 1-year outcome of PD symptoms among consecutive adolescent psychiatric outpatients with depressive disorders (N = 189) was investigated with symptom count of depression, comorbid psychiatric disorders, and perceived social support as predictors. An overall decrease in PD symptoms in most PD categories was observed. Decreases in depression severity and in number of comorbid diagnoses correlated positively with decreases in PD symptoms of most PD categories. Social support from close friends predicted a decrease in schizotypal and narcissistic, whereas support from family predicted a decrease in paranoid symptoms. Our results suggest that among depressed adolescent outpatients, PD symptoms are relatively unstable, changes co-occuring with changes/improvement in overall psychopathology. Social support seems a possibly effective point for intervention efforts regarding positive outcome of PD symptoms.



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