MIDAS Project Publication Abstracts
Zlotnick, C., Franklin, C.L., & Zimmerman, M. Is comorbidity
of posttraumatic stress disorder and borderline personality disorder
related to greater pathology and impairment? American Journal
of Psychiatry, 2005, 159, 1940-1943.
Objective: This report examined whether borderline personality
disorder (BPD) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can be differentiated
from one another in terms of features associated with each of the
disorders as well as other clinical correlates. Method: Outpatients
with BPD, current PTSD, and current major depression (MDD) were
assessed with structured interviews for psychiatric disorders and
for degree of impairment. Results: This report found that
outpatients with comorbid BPD and PTSD diagnoses were not significantly
different from three other groups of outpatients (i.e., BPD and
no PTSD, PTSD without BPD, and MDD without PTSD or BPD groups) in
severity of PTSD symptoms, each of the criterion symptoms of PTSD,
BPD traits, or impairment. Conclusion: The findings of this
report suggest that the diagnoses of PTSD and BPD are independent
symptom constructs.
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