Department of Psychiatry, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
Int J Soc Psychiatry. 2012 Mar;58(2):146-52. doi: 10.1177/0020764010387548. Epub 2010 Dec 22.
Even though personality disorders are common among psychiatric populations, the data from India on their prevalence and demography are sparse.
To profile the prevalence and demography of personality disorders in North India.
The retrospective study was based on patients attending the outpatient of a general hospital psychiatric centre in North India between June 1996 and June 2006. The specified data were collected from the case records of those receiving a primary or comorbid ICD-10 diagnosis of a personality disorder.
Personality disorders had a prevalence of 1.07%, with a preponderance of those aged 21-40 years (69.4%), men (64.9%), employed and students (37.3% and 32.8% respectively), unmarried (56%), graduates and undergraduates (27.6% each), and referred by the family (68.7%). The most common personality disorders were anxious-avoidant and borderline. Compared with the anxious-avoidant group, the borderline group was younger (mean age 24.44 vs 29.66 years) and had a preponderance of females (60% vs 27.1%).
The prevalence of personality disorders among the psychiatric outpatients was low compared to most of the research literature reporting clinically diagnosed personality disorders. The differences between the borderline and anxious-avoidant personality disorder subjects were largely explained by interrelated demographic variables.
尽管人格障碍在精神科人群中很常见，但印度有关其患病率和人口统计学的数据却很少。
分析印度北部人格障碍的患病率和人口统计学特征。
本回顾性研究基于印度北部一家综合医院精神科中心的门诊患者，时间为 1996 年 6 月至 2006 年 6 月。从那些接受 ICD-10 人格障碍主要诊断或共病诊断的病历中收集指定数据。
人格障碍的患病率为 1.07%，以 21-40 岁年龄组（69.4%）、男性（64.9%）、就业和学生（分别为 37.3%和 32.8%）、未婚（56%）、毕业生和本科生（各占 27.6%）和家庭转介（68.7%）为主。最常见的人格障碍是焦虑回避型和边缘型。与焦虑回避型组相比，边缘型组年龄更小（平均年龄 24.44 岁 vs 29.66 岁），女性比例更高（60% vs 27.1%）。
与大多数报告临床诊断人格障碍的研究文献相比，精神科门诊患者的人格障碍患病率较低。边缘型和焦虑回避型人格障碍患者之间的差异在很大程度上可以用相互关联的人口统计学变量来解释。
