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Use of the ICD-10 version of the Standardized Assessment of Personality to determine the prevalence of personality disorder in psychiatric in-patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

John Pilgrim  and
Anthony Mann
John Pilgrim*
Affiliation:
Academic Department of Psychiatry, Royal Free Hospital, London
Anthony Mann
Affiliation:
Academic Department of Psychiatry, Royal Free Hospital, London
*
1Address for correspondence: Dr J. A. Pilgrim, Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF.
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Synopsis

The Standardized Assessment of Personality (SAP) involves a short semi-structured interview with an informant. It was modified to accord with the 1987 draft of the tenth revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) and used to assess the pre-morbid personality of first-admission patients in one London area over the period of one year. Of the 120 (84% of the total sample of first-admissions) patients included, 43 (36%) were found to satisfy the ICD-10 criteria for personality disorder and a further 17 (14%) to satisfy the criteria for personality trait accentuation.

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Preliminary Communication
Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , November 1990 , pp. 985 - 992
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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