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Personality profile among primary care patients: experimenting with the Arabic IPDE ICD‐10
Author(s) -
ElRufaie O. E. F.,
AlSabosy M.,
Abuzeid M. S. O.,
Ghubash R.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1034/j.1600-0447.2002.00413.x
Subject(s) - arabic , personality , comorbidity , primary care , personality disorders , psychiatry , medicine , psychology , family medicine , social psychology , philosophy , linguistics
Objective: To estimate the prevalence of personality disorder (PD) among primary health care (PHC) patients, and to investigate the characteristic features of the International Personality Disorder Examination, the ICD‐10 module (IPDE ICD‐10). Method: A sample ( n =158) PHC patients in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates (UAE) were interviewed by general practitioners (GPs) using the Arabic version of the IPDE ICD‐10. Results: Patients interviewed were 82 males and 76 females. Definite PD was identified in 12.7%. Prevalence rates among males and females were 9.8 and 15.8% consecutively. Commonest personality disorders were the schizoid (5.1%), anankastic (4.4%) and the emotionally unstable, borderline type (3.8%). Comorbidity of PD was manifested by 30% of definite PD patients. The mean dimensional scores of definite and probable PD patients were 5.6 and 4.3 consecutively. Conclusion: The IPDE‐ICD‐10 is useful but relatively time consuming with repetition and need of rephrasing in some items. Dimensional measurement proved essential.