title: Predictors of outcome in a 27-year follow-up of patients with borderline personality disorder.
abstract: Sixty-four patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) were followed up for a mean of 27 years. Outcome was assessed using the Diagnostic Interview for Borderlines, Revised (DIB-R), the Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF), the Symptom Check List-90 (SCL-90), and the Social Adjustment Scale (SAS-SR). Subjects were also administered two self-report measures of childhood experience: the Parental Bonding Index (PBI) and the Developmental Experiences Questionnaire (DEQ). DIB-R scores and GAF scores at 15 years were significant predictors of all these measures of long-term outcome. In contrast, reports of parenting quality and of childhood abuse or trauma had no relationship to outcome.
authors.affiliation: SMBD-Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
authors.forename: Hallie
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zweig-Frank
authors.forename: Joel
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Paris
mesh_terms: D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012917:Social Adjustment; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013997:Time Factors