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  • Title: Identification of borderline personality disorder with the NIMH Diagnostic Interview Schedule.
    Author: Swartz MS, Blazer DG, George LK, Winfield I, Zakris J, Dye E.
    Journal: Am J Psychiatry; 1989 Feb; 146(2):200-5. PubMed ID: 2643363.
    Abstract:
    No lay-administered interviews are currently available to identify persons with borderline personality disorder. The authors studied 79 subjects with the NIMH Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS), a lay-administered interview, and the Diagnostic Interview for Borderline Patients (DIB) and used the results to construct a DIS-based diagnostic index to identify borderline personality disorder. Using the clinician-administered DIB as the diagnostic standard, the authors found that the DIS borderline index had a sensitivity of 85.7%, a specificity of 86.2%, and a kappa of 0.67. The DIS borderline index is a promising extension of the DIS that will facilitate studies of borderline personality disorder in clinical and community settings.
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