Momentary assessment of everyday physical pain in outpatients with borderline personality disorder.

ABSTRACT: Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a severe psychiatric disorder associated with dysregulation in multiple domains of functioning. Physical health, and specifically pain, is one such domain that has gone understudied. Although evidence suggests that BPD is associated with chronic pain, few studies have examined nonchronic pain in the disorder. The current study used ambulatory assessment to examine momentary physical pain in everyday life in BPD outpatients (N = 26) and community comparisons (COM; N = 26) not in treatment for chronic pain (N_observations = 5,458). We predicted and observed that BPD outpatients would report greater pain intensity and greater pain variability than COM comparisons. We also examined the relationship of pain and emotion dysr

SUBMITTER: Carpenter RW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6339610 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature