Borderline Personality Features And Development Of Psychosis In An 'ultra High Risk' (Uhr) Population: A Case Control Study

A Thompson; B Nelson; A Bechdolf; AM Chanen; I Domingues; E Mcdougall; AR Yung

Journal article

Borderline Personality Features And Development Of Psychosis In An 'ultra High Risk' (Uhr) Population: A Case Control Study

A Thompson, B Nelson, A Bechdolf, AM Chanen, I Domingues, E Mcdougall, AR Yung

Early Intervention in Psychiatry | WILEY | Published : 2012

DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7893.2012.00365.x

Abstract

Aims: There is clinical uncertainty as to whether borderline personality disorder (BPD) traits in those with an 'at risk mental state' have an effect on the risk of 'transition' to psychosis. We aimed to investigate the relationship between baseline BPD features, risk of transition and type of psychotic disorder experienced. Method: This is a case-control study of 'Ultra High Risk' (UHR) for psychosis patients treated at the clinic, between 2004 and 2007. 'Cases' were UHR individuals who made the 'transition' to full threshold psychotic disorder within 24months; 'Control' group was a matched UHR sample who had not developed a psychotic disorder at 24months. Individuals were matched on time o..

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Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)

Funding Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the PACE clinicians involved in the assessment and treatment of the individual patients. This work was supported by a Ronald Griffith Fellowship and a National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression Young Investigator Award to Dr Nelson; a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Senior Research Fellowship to Prof Yung, an NHMRC Program Grant (#566529) and by an unrestricted grant from the Colonial Foundation Philanthropic Trust.