Quality of life in patients with personality disorders seen at an ordinary psychiatric outpatient clinic

Abstract

Background: Epidemiological studies have found reduced health-related quality of life (QoL) in patients with personality disorders (PDs), but few clinical studies have examined QoL in PDs, and none of them are from an ordinary psychiatric outpatient clinic (POC). We wanted to examine QoL in patients with PDs seen at a POC, to explore the associations of QoL with established psychiatric measures, and to evaluate QoL as an outcome measure in PD patients.

A systematic review, psychometric analysis and qualitative assessment of generic preference-based measures of health in mental health populations and the estimation of mapping functions from widely used specific measures

“…Two studies 119,121 investigated the known-group validity of the SF-36 and two studies 96,122,123 investigated this property in the SF-12. One study 119 investigated the responsiveness and convergent validity of the SF-36.…”

“…Studies were undertaken in four countries. Nine 96,[119][120][121][122][123][124][125][126][127][128] of the 10 studies presented data for different personality disorders together. One study looked exclusively at individuals with borderline personality disorder.…”

“…96,[119][120][121][124][125][126][127][128] Two studies 120,127 investigated the known-group validity of the EQ-5D, one study 127 investigated the convergent validity of the EQ-5D and four studies [124][125][126]128 investigated the responsiveness of the EQ-5D. Two studies 119,121 investigated the known-group validity of the SF-36 and two studies 96,122,123 investigated this property in the SF-12. One study 119 investigated the responsiveness and convergent validity of the SF-36.…”

“…96,[119][120][121][122][123][124][125][126][127][128] Six studies looked at the EQ-5D, 120,[124][125][126][127][128] two at the SF-36 119,121 and two at the SF-12 (corresponding to three articles). 96,122,123 No studies were found investigating the validity or responsiveness of the SF-6D in this patient group.…”

The relationship between dimensional personality models and quality of life in psychiatric outpatients

“…Amongst the internal factors, personality seems to play a substantial role with respect to QOL or related concepts, such as life satisfaction and well-being (Larsen and Buss, 2005). Narud et al (2005) examined QOL in a sample of psychiatric outpatients with personality disorders of whom 75% had at least one co-morbid Axis-I disorder (according to DSM-IV classification). They found that patients with personality disorders have globally poor QOL compared to age-and gender-adjusted norm data.…”