Obesity and borderline personality symptomatology: comparison of a psychiatric versus primary care sample.
This study explores the relationship between obesity and borderline personality symptomatology in two clinical settings: a psychiatric vs primary care setting. The body mass indices (BMI) of 48 women from a psychiatric outpatient setting and 83 women from a primary care setting were calculated. Each participant completed the borderline personality scale of the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire-Revised (PDQ-R). While BMI and PDQ-R were moderately related in the psychiatric sample (r=0.43, P<0.01), there was a lack of association between these variables in the primary care sample (r=0.04, P>0.05). In conclusion, women's increasing body weight appears to have some degree of correlation to borderline personality symptomatology among psychiatric patients, whereas it apparently does not among primary care patients.
Sansone
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Department of Psychiatry at Wright State University School of Medicine in Dayton, Ohio, USA, and Kettering Medical Center Physicians Incorporated, Dayton, Ohio, USA.
Wiederman
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Sansone
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D015992:Body Mass Index; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity; D010045:Outpatients; D010552:Personality Assessment; D011320:Primary Health Care; D011570:Psychiatry; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires