Prevalence of Borderline Personality Disorder in University Samples: Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine pooled prevalence of clinically significant traits or features of Borderline Personality Disorder among college students, and explore the influence of methodological factors on reported prevalence figures, and temporal trends.

Data sources

Electronic databases (1994-2014: AMED; Biological Abstracts; Embase; MEDLINE; PsycARTICLES; CINAHL Plus; Current Contents Connect; EBM Reviews; Google Scholar; Ovid Medline; Proquest central; PsychINFO; PubMed; Scopus; Taylor & Francis; Web of Science (1998-2014), and hand searches.

Study selection

Forty-three college-based studies reporting estimates of clinically significant BPD symptoms were identified (5.7% of original search).

Data extraction

One author (RM) extracted clinically relevant BPD preval

SUBMITTER: Meaney R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4865108 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature