Predicting depression outcomes throughout inpatient treatment using the general and specific personality disorder factors.

CONCLUSIONS: Personality disorder symptoms are best represented by a general factor that reflects overall personality disorder severity, and specific factors that reflect unique personality styles. The general factor predicts overall depression severity while specific factors predict poorer prognosis which may be masked in prior studies that do not separate the two. PMID: 33028440 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33028440?dopt=Abstract

Source: Psychological Medicine - October 8, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Constantinou MP, Frueh BC, Fowler JC, Allen JG, Madan A, Oldham JM, Fonagy P Tags: Psychol Med Source Type: research