title: Elucidating the association between the self-harm inventory and several borderline personality measures in an inpatient psychiatric sample.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The current study evaluated the utility of the self-harm inventory (SHI) as a proxy for and screening measure of borderline personality disorder (BPD) using several diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (DSM)-based BPD measures as criteria.
  
  
  METHODS
  We used a sample of 145 psychiatric inpatients, who completed the SHI and a series of well-validated, DSM-based self-report measures of BPD.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Using a series of latent trait and latent class analyses, we found that the SHI was substantially associated with a latent construct representing BPD, as well as differentiated latent classes of 'high' vs. 'low' BPD, with good accuracy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The SHI can serve as proxy for and a good screening measure for BPD, but future research needs to replicate these findings using structured interview-based measurement of BPD.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology , University of Otago , Dunedin , New Zealand.
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sellbom
authors.affiliation: b Department of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine , Wright State University School of Medicine , Dayton , OH , USA.
authors.forename: Randy A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Sansone
authors.affiliation: b Department of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine , Wright State University School of Medicine , Dayton , OH , USA.|c Miami Valley Hospital , Dayton , OH , USA.
authors.forename: Douglas A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Songer
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D039721:Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D016728:Self-Injurious Behavior / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Assessment; borderline personality disorder; self-harm inventory