Quality of life in female adults with borderline personality disorder

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Background and Aim: Most mental disorders are associated with impaired quality of life. The present study was to assess the Quality of Life in females with Borderline Personality Disorder.
Methods: We assessed quality of life in 37 medication-free female patients with Borderline Personality Disorder without current substance abuse or depression and 37 healthy female controls by Medical Outcomes Short-Form-36 (SF-36 V1) questionnaires. For analyzing data we used "Independent-Sample t-test" for comparing data of two groups.
Results: BPD Females participated in this study had significantly lower quality of life than health control women in "Mental Component Summery" and "Physical Component Summery" (P<0.0001), also in all eight domains as follows: "Physical functioning", "Role limitations due to physical problems", "Role limitations due to emotional problems", "Social functioning", "Mental health", "Vitality", "General health" (P<0.0001) and "Pain" (P=0.004).
Conclusion: Our findings demonstrate women with Borderline Personality Disorder suffered a poorer quality of life in comparison to health control females. Focusing on reasons of low quality of life in these patients should be considered in prevention and treatment health programs.

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