How changes in depression severity and borderline personality disorder intensity are linked – a cohort study of depressed patients with and without borderline personality disorder

Table 2 Changes in BPDSI Total and Subscores from Baseline to Follow-up

Sample	MDD			MDE/BD			MDE/BPD			Whole Cohort
	Mean	sd	p	Mean	sd	p	Mean	sd	p	Mean	sd	p	ANOVA p
Total	-3.20	6.52	0.005	-4.78	7.06	0.001	-5.73	6.77	0.005	-4.23	6.74	< 0.001	0.416
Sensitivity to Abandonment	-0.10	0.88	0.387	-0.20	1.23	0.223	0.10	1.25	1.000	-0.10	1.07	0.192	0.682
Unstable Relationships	0.13	0.77	0.392	0.14	0.80	0.546	-0.28	1.18	0.489	0.06	0.87	0.616	0.265
Identity Disturbance	-0.35	1.42	0.113	-0.66	1.72	0.026	-1.04	1.12	0.005	-0.59	1.49	< 0.001	0.312
Impulsivity	-0.05	0.43	0.493	-0.19	0.72	0.200	-0.24	0.67	0.221	-0.14	0.59	0.053	0.511
Suicidality and Self-Harm	-0.16	0.62	0.085	-0.08	0.61	0.073	-0.48	0.86	0.059	-0.19	0.67	0.004	0.174
Affective Hyperreactivity	-1.55	2.26	< 0.001	-1.76	1.91	< 0.001	-0.97	1.46	0.036	-1.52	2.01	< 0.001	0.470
Feelings of Emptiness	-0.62	2.79	0.242	-1.68	2.70	< 0.001	-1.63	3.04	0.064	-1.18	2.82	< 0.001	0.261
Difficulties in Anger Control	-0.36	1.09	0.126	-0.14	1.43	0.468	-0.46	1.47	0.263	-0.30	1.28	0.048	0.695
Dissociative and Paranoid Symptoms	-0.13	0.91	0.451	-0.21	1.16	0.345	-0.74	1.82	0.173	-0.27	1.21	0.070	0.246

Notes MDD = Major depressive disorder, MDE = Major depressive episode, BD = Bipolar disorder, BPD = Borderline personality disorder, sd = standard deviation. p refers to significance testing of amount of change (i.e. comparison of baseline to follow-up scores); ANOVA p refers to analysis of variance significance testing of differences between cohorts

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