title: Borderline personality disorder features and utilization of treatment over two years.
abstract: This study assessed the relationship between borderline personality disorder (BPD) features and treatment utilization over a 2-year time period. Participants included 349 18-year-old nonclinical young adults, approximately one-half of whom endorsed significant borderline features. The laboratory phase of the study involved the administration of self-report and interview-based assessments of BPD psychopathology at Wave 1, as well as interviews targeting Axis I psychopathology and treatment utilization history at Wave 2 (2 years later). Results indicated that borderline features prospectively predicted utilization of psychopharmacological treatment above and beyond what was accounted for by gender, lifetime Axis I psychopathology, and nonBPD Axis II psychopathology. The borderline feature most strongly associated with treatment utilization was affective instability.
authors.affiliation: University of Missouri-Columbia, 65211, USA.
authors.forename: Courtney L
authors.initials: CL
authors.lastname: Bagge
authors.forename: Stephanie D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Stepp
authors.forename: Timothy J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Trull
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D011599:Psychopathology; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D011619:Psychotropic Drugs / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013997:Time Factors; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D011619:Psychotropic Drugs