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. 1998 Jan;155(1):140-2.
doi: 10.1176/ajp.155.1.140.

Frequency of personality disorders in two age cohorts of psychiatric inpatients

C M Grilo  1 , T H McGlashan, D M Quinlan, M L Walker, D Greenfeld, W S Edell
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Frequency of personality disorders in two age cohorts of psychiatric inpatients

C M Grilo et al. Am J Psychiatry. 1998 Jan.

Abstract

Objective: The authors examined the frequency of DSM-III-R personality disorders in adolescent and young adult psychiatric inpatients.

Method: Structured diagnostic interviews were reliably performed with a series of 255 consecutively admitted inpatients (138 adolescents and 117 young adults).

Results: Most personality disorders were diagnosed in similar frequencies in the two study groups. Passive-aggressive personality disorder was diagnosed with lower frequency and dependent personality disorder with higher frequency in the young adult than in the adolescent group.

Conclusions: The isomorphism of relative frequencies among psychiatric inpatients suggests that what is seen in adolescents are valid forms of most adult personality disorders.

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