@article{ref1,
title="An Examination of DSM-IV Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms and Risk for Death by Suicide: A Psychological Autopsy Study",
journal="Canadian journal of psychiatry, The",
year="2009",
author="McGirr, Alexandre and Paris, J. and Lesage, Alain and Renaud, Johanne and Turecki, Gustavo",
volume="54",
number="2",
pages="87-92",
abstract="Objective: To clarify whether certain Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV), borderline personality disorder (BPD) symptoms are more prevalent among people who die by suicide, and thereby better predict suicide risk. Method: A psychological autopsy method with best informants was used to investigate DSM-IV BPD symptoms and suicide risk among people who died by suicide and met criteria for BPD (n = 62), and BPD control subjects (n = 35). Results: BPD symptoms in people who died by suicide were less likely to include affective instability and paranoid ideation-dissociative symptoms. The negative association between paranoid ideation-dissociative symptoms and suicide was independent of all other BPD symptoms, Cluster B comorbidity, and alcohol dependence. Conclusions: We found that discrete DSM-IV BPD symptoms differentiate people with BPD who die by suicide and those who do not. People with BPD who go on to die by suicide appear to constitute a specific subgroup of those who meet criteria for BPD, characterized by different general clinical presentation, but also by different characteristics within BPD.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0706-7437",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}