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Table 4 Comorbidity and symptom assessments in patients with substance use disorders with and without comorbid personality disorders

From: In-depth study of personality disorders in first-admission patients with substance use disorders

 

PD full criteria

PD including subthreshold diagnoses

 

Yes

No

Sign.

Yes

No

Sign.

 

n= 28

n =33

n= 35

n =26

Comorbid Axis I disorders

Any Axis I disordera (%)

93

79

 

91

77

 

Number of Axis I disordersa (mean)

2.6

1.7

*

2.5

1.7

 

Any mood disorder (%)

79

73

 

80

69

 

MDD (%)

68

70

 

69

69

 

Any anxiety disorder (%)

68

36

*

60

39

 

Social phobia (%)

50

15

**

40

19

 

Panic disorder (%)

18

6

 

14

8

 

PTSD (%)

21

15

 

17

19

 

Other assessments

SCL-90-R, GSI score (mean)

1.45

0.94

*

1.37

0.92

*

IDS sum score (mean)

30.5

22.4

**

28.0

23.6

 

GAF-S (mean score)

51.4

58.8

***

53.0

58.7

**

GAF-F (mean score)

49.5

61.4

***

51.5

61.9

***

  1. Notes. All diagnoses are lifetime diagnoses. a Axis I disorders other than SUDs. * p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01; *** p ≤ 0.001.
  2. PD personality disorder, Subthreshold lacking one criterion for the diagnosis, SUD substance use disorder, MDD major depressive disorder, PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder, GAF-S Global Assessment of Functioning, Symptom score, GAF-F Global Assessment of Functioning, Functioning score, SCL-90-R Symptom Checklist, 90 Questions, Revised, GSI Global Symptom Index, IDS Inventory of Depressive Symptoms, Sign. statistically significant differences between patients with and without PD.