Paul Moran

..A definitive evaluation is now being conducted to determine whether PEPS therapy is a clinically and cost-effective treatment for people with personality disorder..

..To examine the association between co-morbid personality disorder (PD) and suicidal behaviour over a 2-year period in a sample of patients with psychosis...

..There have been no studies of the co-occurrence of personality and substance use disorders in young community-dwelling adults...

..To assess the five-factor model (FFM) characteristics of young adults with Diagnostic Statistical Manual-IV (DSM-IV) personality disorders in a large community study...

..Callous and unemotional traits are longitudinally associated with the level and impact of childhood psychiatric problems...

..Using a large representative sample of children and adolescents living in Great Britain, we set out to examine the effects of CU traits on a range of mental health outcomes measured 3 years after the initial assessment...

..60; 95% CI: 0.49-0.75; p(trend) = 0.001). Adjusting for potential confounding variables had virtually no impact. We conclude that low childhood IQ predicts hospitalization with PD and may be an important factor in the development of PD...

..However, to date they have not been used with individuals with BPD. This exploratory trial will examine whether use of a JCP is an effective and cost-effective intervention for people with BPD for reducing self-harm...

..There is a need for a brief and simple screen for personality disorders that can be used in routine psychiatric assessments...

..The impact of comorbid personality disorder on the occurrence of violence in psychosis has not been fully explored...

..We set out to examine whether maternal PD and depression assessed at 2 months post partum would be independently associated with adverse developmental outcomes at 18 months of age...

..Little is known about the determinants of violence in women with psychosis...

..Treatment costs at six-month follow-up were also significantly higher. Implications are discussed...

..Further research is required to compare such models in large prospective epidemiologic studies of other psychiatric populations...

..Little is known about the physical health of personality-disordered people. This study investigated associations between personality disorder and cardiovascular disease in a large, nationally representative sample from Great Britain...

..Despite public concern, the risks of violence from persons with severe mental illness were very low...

..We aimed to obtain the perspective of service users and staff on: (a) the experience of receiving treatment; and (b) the experience of delivering treatment, within new forensic services for PD offenders...

..People with borderline personality disorder frequently experience crises. To date, no randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of crisis interventions for this population have been published...

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..Since de-institutionalisation, much has been written about the risk posed to the community by those with severe mental illness. However, violent victimisation of people with mental illnesses has received little attention...

..The impact of personality disorder on pathways into psychiatric care is unknown...

..Despite this, little is known about what constitutes effective management of acute crises in this population...

..We aimed to examine the independent effects of maternal depression and personality disorder on infant care...

..From a repeated measures cohort of a representative sample, we describe the course of self-harm from middle adolescence to young adulthood...

..4 (antisocial) to 0.1 (narcissistic). In this population of patients, the SAP proved to be a poor screen for the SCID-II. The study highlights the discrepancy between informant and self-report assessments for personality disorder...

..Further work needs to be undertaken before the optimal organisation of dedicated personality disorder services can be agreed...

..The aim of this study was to establish the prevalence and predictors of violent victimization amongst a community-dwelling sample of individuals with psychosis...

..The paper concludes with recommendations for future research...

..This study aims to examine the life expectancy and relative mortality in people with PD within secondary mental health care...

..We analysed the prevalence of screen positive personality disorder in a representative sample of adults with OCD living in private households in the UK...

..Specific treatments and management strategies are indicated...

..Case-control studies are vulnerable to selection and information biases which may generate misleading findings...

..There have been few attempts to assess alternative methods of collecting resource use data for economic evaluations...

..The GP ratings of personality disorder were strongly associated with adverse perceptions of the patient's consulting behaviour...

..It is unclear whether psychiatric morbidity contributes to the small proportion of the population responsible for a large percentage of antisocial behaviour, including violence...

..However, little is known about the predictors and effects of early-onset amphetamine use. We set out to examine these issues using a representative cohort of young people followed-up over 11 years in Victoria, Australia...

..1-626.2, P=0.002). CONCLUSIONS: Personality disorders are not independently associated with increased costs. An interaction between personality disorders and common mental disorders significantly predicts increased total costs...

..Limited data exist on the outcome of Dandy-Walker malformation (DWM), Dandy-Walker variant (DWV) and mega-cisterna magna (MCM). We report the first population-based study of posterior fossa anomalies from the northern region of England...

..We examined these issues using a representative cohort of young people followed-up in Victoria, Australia...

..To examine predictors of death in young offenders who have received a custodial sentence using data routinely collected by juvenile justice services...