title: Structured interviews for borderline personality disorder.
abstract: The authors compared three instruments used to diagnose borderline personality disorder--the Diagnostic Interview for Borderline Patients (DIB), the Schedule for Interviewing Borderlines, and the Structured Interview for DSM-III Personality Disorders--in 56 patients with personality disorders. A borderline diagnosis was made according to the DIB in 30%, the Structured Interview for DSM-III Personality Disorders in 48%, and the Schedule for Interviewing Borderlines in 55% of the patients. Diagnostic agreement was only 52%, which has implications for the generalizability of results of validation studies of the borderline diagnosis. Improvement in diagnostic agreement requires modification of current criteria sets and/or the use of dimensional models.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York.
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Kavoussi
authors.forename: E F
authors.initials: EF
authors.lastname: Coccaro
authors.forename: H M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Klar
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bernstein
authors.forename: L J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Siever
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011594:Psychometrics