The Prevalence of Personality Disorders in a Community Sample

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IN CONTRAST to symptom disorders, few epidemiological studies of personality disorders (PDs) have been conducted to establish their prevalence. As the structured Diagnostic Interview Schedule (DIS)%1 contains questions pertaining to the antisocial PD, it has been studied in epidemiological studies of symptom disorders.%2-6 An attempt has also been made to arrive at estimates of the prevalence of obsessive-compulsive%3 and histrionic%7 PDs in such studies. One study has tried to estimate the frequency of borderline PD using the DIS.%8