Comparing Diagnostic Tools in Personality Disorders

2016-07-02T18-00-13Z
Source: Journal of Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapy and Research
Emel AKGÜN AKTAŞ, Seher Olga GÜRİZ, Akfer KARAOĞLAN KAHİLOĞULLARI, Güler ALPASLAN, Esra ÇAVDAR, Aysegül DAĞDEVİREN.
Personality Disorder is defined as; continually self experience and behavioral pattern which has great variations of individual cultural normal expectations. Several diagnostic tools were developed for diagnosing personality disorders. In our study consistency of different diagnostic tools used for thhe diagnosis of personality disorders were evaluated. 39 inpatients diagnosed as personality disorder from Dışkapı Yıldırım Beyazıt Traning and Reseach Hospital were recruited into the study. Psychotic patients are excluded from the study. Sociodemographic Information Form, MMPI and PBQ scales were given all the patients. Both PBQ personality subscales and MMPI PD scales were compared with semi-structured SCID-II interview diagnoses. Findings suggest less correlation than expected. Relatively higher correlation was found between PBQ personality subscales and MMPI-PD. Most common psychiatric comorbid disorder was depression. These findings suggest that further studies are needed for the development of diagnostic tools which take the differences of self report scales and clinical evalution into consideration. Beside, the differences of the categorical and dimensional classification of personality disorders should be bear in mind in evaluation of this patient group.


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