Alcoholism and personality disorders: an exploratory study.
OBJECTIVE
To define the most frequent personality disorders related to alcohol dependence.


METHODS
Using the International Personality Disorder Examination and the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-II for personality disorders, 30 consecutively recruited alcohol-dependent patients attending an outpatient clinic were compared with 30 consecutively recruited psychiatric patients with non-addictive disorders and 31 subjects from the general population chosen to match the patient samples for age, gender and socio-economic level.


RESULTS
Forty percent of the alcohol-dependent patients and 16.6% of the general clinical sample (vs 6.4% of the normative sample) showed at least one personality disorder. Dependent personality disorders were most prevalent (13.3%), followed by paranoid and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders (10% each).
Echeburúa
Enrique
E
Facultad de Psicología, Universidad del País Vasco, Avda. de Tolosa, 70, 20018 San Sebastián, España. eecheburua@ss.ehu.es
de Medina
Ricardo Bravo
RB
Aizpiri
Javier
J
D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D000554:Ambulatory Care Facilities / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015897:Comorbidity; D003193:Compulsive Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D003859:Dependent Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D017831:Diagnosis, Dual (Psychiatry); D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D010260:Paranoid Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D010552:Personality Assessment / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010865:Pilot Projects; D015995:Prevalence; D012737:Sex Factors; D012923:Social Class; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology