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Is there any specific personality disorder or personality disorder cluster that worsens the short‐term treatment outcome of major depression?
Author(s) -
Sato T.,
Sakado K.,
Sato S.
Publication year - 1993
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 - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1993.tb03470.x
Subject(s) - depression (economics) , discriminant function analysis , psychology , personality , outcome (game theory) , cluster (spacecraft) , personality disorders , clinical psychology , psychiatry , antidepressant , anxiety , social psychology , mathematics , mathematical economics , machine learning , computer science , economics , macroeconomics , programming language
This study attempted to identify a specific personality disorder (PD) or PD cluster that independently worsens the 4‐month treatment outcome of major depression under adequate antidepressant. The material of the study was 96 consecutive outpatients with major depression. For the Axis I and Axis II diagnoses, the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM‐III‐R (SCID) was used. In the material, the presence of any PD significantly worsened the 4‐month outcome. The discriminant function analysis, conducted to identify a specific PD or PD cluster that influences the outcome, found that the number of PD from only cluster A and the number of criteria met for only schizoid PD was significantly correlated with the 4‐month outcome of depression.