Pharmacological interventions for borderline personality disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Drugs are widely used in borderline personality disorder (BPD) treatment, chosen because of properties known from other psychiatric disorders ("off-label use"), mostly targeting affective or impulsive symptom clusters.

Objectives

To assess the effects of drug treatment in BPD patients.

Search strategy

We searched bibliographic databases according to the Cochrane Developmental, Psychosocial and Learning Problems Group strategy up to September 2009, reference lists of articles, and contacted researchers in the field.

Selection criteria

Randomised studies comparing drug versus placebo, or drug versus drug(s) in BPD patients. Outcomes included total BPD severity, distinct BPD symptom facets according to DSM-IV criteria, associated psychopathology not spe

SUBMITTER: Stoffers J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4169794 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature