Personality disorders in medical students: measuring by IPDE-10
Wongpakaran, N.; Wongpakaran, T.
Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand 88(9): 1278-1281
2005
ISSN/ISBN: 0125-2208 PMID: 16536116 Document Number: 9592
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the personality disorders (PDs) of fifth year medical students of Chiang Mai University according to International Classification of Disease -10 (ICD-10) system by using IPDE-10. A group of ninety-nine out of 150 of fifth-year medical students of Chiang Mai University undertook personality disorder inventory - International Personality Disorder Examination ICD-10 screening questionnaires (IPDE-ICD 10). Those who received diagnoses of personality disorders were subsequently interviewed by the authors to find definite diagnoses. The prevalence rate of PDs was 9%. The proportion of all PDs was as follows; 1%, 3%, 2%, 2%, and 1% for paranoid, impulsive, histrionic, anankastic, and dependent, respectively. The rate of probable diagnoses of PDs ranged from 1%-22.8%. The prevalence rate found in the medical students group did not differ from that in other populations. The benefit of ICD diagnosis system was discussed.
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