Citation

Sansone RA, Wiederman MW, Sansone LA, Monteith D. Gen. Hosp. Psychiatry 2000; 22(3): 174-178.

Affiliation

Departments of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine at Wright State University School of Medicine in Dayton, Ohio, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2000, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10880710

Abstract

The current study investigated differences in self-harm behavior among individuals with borderline personality symptomatology from two different clinical settings. Participants were women, between the ages of 18 and 45, from an outpatient mental health setting or a primary care setting. Each participant completed the Self-Harm Inventory (SHI) and the borderline personality scale of the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire-Revised (PDQ-R). Using a predetermined cut-off for substantial borderline personality symptomatology on the SHI, group comparisons with chi(2) analyses indicated that "overdosed" and "hit self" were significantly more common in the mental health subsample whereas "abused laxatives" was significantly more common in the primary care subsample. Using a predetermined cut-off for borderline personality on the PDQ-R, chi-square analyses indicated that "overdosed" and "hit self" remained significantly more common in the mental health subsample. Despite these differences, there was remarkable similarity of symptoms between groups. The implications of these findings are discussed.

Language: en