Prevalence of Personality Disorders and Their Clinical Correlates in Outpatient Adolescents With Anorexia Nervosa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19301554 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Santino Gaudio (0000-0001-7165-881X, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, corresponding author), Vincenzo Di Ciommo (0000-0003-4964-5224) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 769-774 |
| Publication date | 2011-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychosomatic Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-3174 • E-ISSN: 1534-7796 |
| Publisher | Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1097/psy.0b013e318235b9b5 |
| PMID | 22042882 |
| OpenAlex | W2335144654 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 34 |
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate personality disorder (PD) comorbidity and its clinical correlates in a sample of adolescents with anorexia nervosa (AN) and to compare them with similar studies on adults. METHODS: One hundred one female AN outpatients (16-18 years old)-57 with AN restrictive type and 44 with AN binge-purging type-and 71 age-matched, healthy, female participants were assessed using the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis II Disorders. Five selected clinical variables of AN severity were also assessed. RESULTS: Overall, 24.8% of AN outpatients had one or more PD compared with 4.2% of the control participants (p < .001). PDs most frequently found in AN outpatients were avoidant, borderline, and obsessive-compulsive. Associations were found between AN binge-purging type and borderline PD and between AN restrictive type and obsessive-compulsive PD. AN outpatients with a PD had an earlier age of onset of AN (mean [standard deviation {SD}] = 15.4 [1.2] versus 16.1 [0.9], p = .002), lower lifetime lowest BMI (mean [SD] = 14.8 [1.5] versus 15.6 [1.3], p = .01), and more hospital admissions for AN (mean [SD] = 1.4 [0.9] versus 0.3 [0.6], p < .001) compared with those without PDs. CONCLUSIONS: Associations were found between AN and PDs in adolescents similar to those found in adults. The presence of a PD is associated with a greater severity of AN. PD assessment of adolescent AN patients may permit a more accurate diagnosis and better treatment planning
Age of onset · Anorexia nervosa · Borderline personality disorder · Comorbidity · Disease · Eating disorders · Outpatient clinic · Personality · Personality disorders · Psychiatry · Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues · Clinical Psychology · Eating Disorders and Behaviors · Internal Medicine · Medicine · Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |