Preventive psychiatric admission for patients with borderline personality disorder: a pilot study.
OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this study was to establish the preliminary effects of preventive psychiatric admission of patients with severe borderline personality disorder (BPD) on the rate of agreement over treatment, patient service use, and patient views on the intervention.


METHODS
A retrospective pre-post test design with quantitative measures and qualitative interviews was used.


RESULTS
Agreement over treatment increased substantially and significantly, and services use decreased substantially, yet not significantly. Patients were highly content with the intervention.


CONCLUSIONS
Preliminary results indicate that preventive admissions may be easy to use and cost effective with severe BPD patients in mainstream psychiatric services, but more research into the intervention is needed.
Koekkoek
Bauke
B
Altrecht Mental Health Care, Department of Outpatient Community Care, Zeist, The Netherlands.
van der Snoek
René
R
Oosterwijk
Kees
K
van Meijel
Berno
B
D000328:Adult; D000553:Ambulatory Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D001294:Attitude to Health; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008875:Middle Aged; D009426:Netherlands; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D010343:Patient Admission; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011209:Power, Psychological; D011316:Preventive Psychiatry / Q000458:organization & administration*; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D015397:Program Evaluation; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D018709:Statistics, Nonparametric; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D016896:Treatment Outcome