High prevalence of personality disorders among healthy volunteers for research: Implications for control group bias

Journal of Psychiatric Research

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 421-430

  Bunce, Scott C ^a   Noblett, Kurtis L ^b   McCloskey, Michael S ^b   Coccaro, Emil F ^b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b The University of Chicago   (United States)

Author keywords

Control group bias; Healthy volunteers; Personality disorders; Psychiatric research; Subject recruitment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; SELF REPORT;

EID: 15544389022     PISSN: 00223956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2004.09.005     Document Type: Article

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