Abstract
Objective: As part of a larger study investigating biological risk factors for bipolar disorder (BD) and borderline personality disorder (BPD), we investigated the prevalence of psychiatric diagnoses presented by young BD or BPD offspring. With respect to the scarcity of studies interested in psychiatric disorders among BPD offspring, we have chosen to report these results despite the small sample size for a prevalence study. Method: We recruited 21 BD and 22 BPD offspring and 23 control subjects. All subjects were assessed with a structured interview. Results: Our main finding suggests that BPD offspring present a higher rate of psychiatric disorders compared to BD offspring. Attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder was the most prevalent disorder. Conclusion: Our results contribute to the evidence that offspring of patients with BPD, are at high risk with regard to their mental health and deserve both more research and special attention at the clinical level.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1810-1819 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Journal of Clinical Psychology |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue number | 10 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Oct 1 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The study is supported by the Swiss National Center of Competence in Research; “Synapsy: the Synaptic Basis of Mental Diseases” (grant number: 51NF40–158776) and by the Swiss National Science Foundation as part of the project “Investigating functional neural circuit vulnerability and biomarkers in high-risk offspring and normothymic bipolar disorder patients” (grant number: SNF 32003B_156914).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 The Authors. Journal of Clinical Psychology Published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- Clinical Psychology
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
PubMed: MeSH publication types
- Journal Article
- Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
