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Table 4 Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) total and subscale scores (mean (SD))

From: Outcome of crisis intervention for borderline personality disorder and post traumatic stress disorder: a model for modification of the mechanism of disorder in complex post traumatic syndromes

 

Experimental group (N = 32)

Control group (N = 26)

 

Baseline

Follow-up

Baseline

Follow-up

Total BPRS

34.8 (9.7)

14.3 (8.2)**

26.9 (8)

23 (7.9)

Withdrawal - retardation

6.6 (4.0)

1.8 (2.2)**

3.2 (3.1)

2.9 (2.6)

Thinking disorder

4.4 (4.6)

1.3 (1.8)

1.7 (2.5)

1.8 (2.9)

Anxiety - depression

14.2 (4.4)

7.5 (3.7)**

14.0 (2.6)

11.6 (3.2)

Hostility - suspicious

4.3 (3.0)

1.5 (2.2)**

3.4 (3.3)

3.8 (2.3)

Activation

5.4 (3.7)

2.3 (2.9)*

4.6 (2.9)

2.9 (1.9)

  1. *P ≤ 0.05; **P ≤ 0.001.
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Annals of General Psychiatry

ISSN: 1744-859X