Predictors of dropout among personality disorders in a specialist outpatients psychosocial treatment: A preliminary study

Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 180-186

  Martino, Francesca ^a   Menchetti, Marco ^a   Pozzi, Euro ^b   Berardi, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b Service of Immunohaematology and Transfusion Medicine   (Italy)

Author keywords

borderline personality disorder; dropout; patient's subjective experience; psychosocial outpatient program; therapeutic relationship

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BORDERLINE STATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEMOGRAPHY; EXPECTATION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH CENTER; MOTIVATION; OUTPATIENT CARE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF REPORT; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; AMBULATORY CARE; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTERS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; ODDS RATIO; OUTPATIENTS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT DROPOUTS; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOTHERAPY, GROUP; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84859022920     PISSN: 13231316     EISSN: 14401819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1819.2012.02329.x     Document Type: Article

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