Journal article
Personality disorder assessments in acute depressive episodes: Stability at follow-up
J Lopez-Castroman, H Galfalvy, D Currier, B Stanley, H Blasco-Fontecilla, E Baca-Garcia, JM Harkavy-Friedman, JJ Mann, MA Oquendo
Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease | LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS | Published : 2012
Abstract
Assessment of personality disorders during the acute phase of major depression may be invalidated by the potential distortion of personality traits in depressed mood states. However, few studies have tested this assumption. We examined the stability of personality disorder diagnoses during and then after a major depressive episode (MDE). Subjects with major depression (N = 82) completed the 17-item Hamilton Depression Scale (HAM-17) and the Structured Clinical Interview for Axis II both at baseline during an MDE and at 3-month follow-up. We compared subjects who continued to meet DSM-IV criteria for the same Axis II diagnoses with patients whose diagnosis changed and patients with no DSM-IV ..
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Funding Acknowledgements
[ "Dr Lopez-Castroman was supported by Koplowitz Foundation and Instituto de Salud Carlos III research grants. The study was funded by the Centro de Investigacion Biomedica en Red de Salud Mental, CIBERSAM. The Spanish Ministry of Health and the organizations cited above had no further role in study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; and in the decision to submit the paper for publication.", "Dr Mann has received unrelated grants from GSF and Novartis. Dr Oquendo has received funding from National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Moody's Foundation, as well as an unrestricted educational grant from Eli Lilly, and has served as a consultant to Pfizer." ]