title: The clinical global impression scale for borderline personality disorder patients (CGI-BPD): a scale sensible to detect changes.
abstract: The CGI-BPD scale is an adaptation of the Clinical Global Impression (CGI) scale designed to assess severity and post-intervention changes in patients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). It contains 10 items that score the nine relevant psychopathological domains of BPD, plus an additional global score. The CGI-BPD has two formats, the CGI-BPD-S, to evaluate the present severity, and the CGIBPD- I to evaluate improvement. To establish the psychometric properties of the CGI-BPD, the test was administered to 78 BPD patients, 11 men and 67 women, within the framework of a 4-month therapeutic intervention. The modified scale showed good validity and reliability (alpha 0.85 and 0.89; CCI: 0.86 and 0.78), adequate sensitivity to change, and a two-factor structure accounting for 67.4 % of total variance. While remaining simple to administer, the CGI-BPD may correct the excessive generalisation contained in its original version and is a useful tool to evaluate severity and change in BPD patients.
authors.affiliation: Departmento de Psiquiatría, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Universidad Autónoma (UAB) Barcelona, Spain. vperez@hsp.santpau.es
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Perez
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Barrachina
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Soler
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Pascual
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Campins
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Puigdemont
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Alvarez
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires