Effects of substance use disorder on treatment process and outcome in a ten-session psychiatric treatment for borderline personality disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Dual diagnosis is common in Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), one of the most common being Substance Use Disorder (SUD). Previous studies have shown that general psychiatric management (GPM) was effective in reducing borderline symptoms. In the present study, we tested whether the short GPM was as effective in the BPD + SUD as in the BPD group.

Methods

We analysed a group of 99 patients presenting a BPD. 51 of these patients presented a SUD. The BPD group and the BPD + SUD group received a manual-based short variant of the GPM treatment. Previous studies have shown that a 10-session version of GPM was effective in reducing borderline symptoms at the end of the treatment (Psychother Psychosom 83:176-86, 2014).

Results

We found no significant difference

SUBMITTER: Penzenstadler L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5828425 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature