No lay-administered interviews are currently available to identify
persons with borderline personality disorder. The authors studied 79
subjects with the NIMH Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS), a lay-
administered interview, and the Diagnostic Interview for Borderline
Patients (DIB) and used the results to construct a DIS-based diagnostic
index to identify borderline personality disorder. Using the clinician-
administered DIB as the diagnostic standard, the authors found that the DIS
borderline index had a sensitivity of 85.7%, a specificity of 86.2%, and a
kappa of 0.67. The DIS borderline index is a promising extension of the DIS
that will facilitate studies of borderline personality disorder in clinical
and community settings.
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