MIDAS Project Publication Abstracts
Rothschild, L., & Zimmerman, M. Personality disorders and
the duration of depressive episode: A retrospective study. Journal
of Personality Disorders, 2002, 16, 293-303.
In the present report from the Rhode Island Methods to Improve
Diagnostic Assessment and Services (MIDAS) project we examined the
relationship between chronicity of depression and personality disorders.
Three hundred and eighty-five depressed outpatients were evaluated
with semi-structured interviews. Duration of depression was analyzed
as a continuous variable, and by subdividing patients by the DSM-IV
chronic specifier (i.e., more or less than two years). Two separate
regression analyses addressed the association between major depressive
episode duration and each of the 10 personality disorders found
on Axis II. Although there was some difference between particular
personality disorders associated with the two indicators of depressive
duration, the results of the regression analyses indicate that the
chronicity of depression is associated with personality disorders.
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