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FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
Volume 12, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.800047
Keywords
personality disorder; psychiatric disorders; comorbidity; prevalence; non-psychotic disorders
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- Excellent Young Medical Talents Training of Health Commission of Pudong New Area [PWRq2020-49]
- Pudong New Area of Science and Technology Development Fund [PKJ2019-Y25]
- Shanghai Municipal Health Industry Clinical Research Project [20204y0194]
- Shanghai Pudong New Area Mental Health Center, Tongji University School of Medicine
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The burden of personality disorders in China is significant, with common comorbidities in both psychotic and non-psychotic disorders. However, the distribution patterns of PDs differ between the two types of disorders, suggesting the need for specific strategies in psychiatric clinical practice to address these differences.
Introduction: The burden of personality disorders (PDs) in China is large and the focus on mental health services is increasing. However, there is a lack of sufficient evidence regarding the prevalence of comorbid PD in psychotic and non-psychotic disorders, and whether PDs have different distributions. We aimed to investigate the PD comorbidity distribution pattern between psychotic and non-psychotic disorders using a clinical population-based study.Materials and Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study of 1,497 patients in Shanghai. PDs were screened using the Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire Fourth Edition Plus (PDQ-4+). All patients were interviewed using the Structured Clinical Interview for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition (DSM-IV) Axis II (SCID-II). We compared the differences in PD comorbidities classified as the 10 types of PDs in the DSM-IV, in 531 patients with psychosis and 966 patients with non-psychotic disorders.Results: More than one-third (37%) of patients with psychotic disorders met the criteria of at least one PD. Approximately half (46%) of patients with non-psychotic disorders met the criteria of at least one PD. Patients with non-psychotic disorders were more likely to meet the criteria of borderline (chi(2) = 20.154, p < 0.001) and obsessive-compulsive PD (chi(2) = 21.164, p < 0.001) diagnoses compared to those with psychotic disorders. In contrast, patients with psychotic disorders were more likely to meet the criteria of paranoid (chi(2) = 11.144, p = 0.001) and schizotypal PD (chi(2) = 14.004, p < 0.001) diagnoses than those with non-psychotic disorders.Discussion: PD comorbidity is common and comorbidity distribution pattern is varied in patients with psychotic and non-psychotic disorders, implicating the development of specific strategies that could screen and assess PDs in psychiatric clinical practice.
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