The Burden of Disease in Personality Disorders: Diagnosis-Specific Quality of Life

• Published in: Journal of personality disorders Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 259 - 268
• Main Authors: Soeteman, Djøra I., Verheul, Roel, Busschbach, Jan J.V.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Guilford 01.06.2008; Guilford Press
• Subjects: Activities of Daily Living; Adult; Adult and adolescent clinical studies; Anxiety Disorders; Biological and medical sciences; Borderline Personality Disorder - diagnosis; Borderline Personality Disorder - psychology; Clinical outcomes; Cost of Illness; Female; Humans; Informed Consent; Interviews; Male; Medical sciences; Mental Health; Middle Aged; Modeling (Psychology); Netherlands - epidemiology; Norwegian; Outcome Measures; Outpatient care facilities; Parkinson's disease; Patients; Personality; Personality disorders; Personality Disorders - diagnosis; Personality Disorders - epidemiology; Personality Disorders - psychology; Personality Problems; Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Psychotherapy; Quality of Life; Questionnaires; Resistance (Psychology); Rheumatic diseases; Sample size; Semi Structured Interviews; Sickness Impact Profile; Social Support; Structured Interviews; Surveys and Questionnaires; Validity; Weighted Scores; Well Being; Netherlands; Europe; Social environment; Human; Multicenter study; Mental health; Diagnosis; Subtype; Recommendation; Public health; Personality disorder; Quality of life

A generic quality of life measure was used to investigate the burden of disease in a large sample of patients with personality disorders. The 1,708 subjects included in this study were recruited from six different mental health care institutes in the Netherlands. The burden of disease was measured u...