Methodology of the epidemiology studies of personality disorder in senior high school students in Beijing / 中国心理卫生杂志

ABSTRACT

Objectives: To describe prevalence of personality disorders (PD) and personality dysfunction in senior high school students in Beijing using cross-sectional study, to explore genetic and environmental risk factors of PD in adolescence using a case-control study, to establishand test the hypothesis of genetic and environmental risk factors of PD using a cohort study and describe the natural history of personality dysfunction, and to develop and test an intervention model of mental health education to community adolescents in Beijing using a community intervention trail. Methods: By means of cross-sectional study, case-control study, cohort study, and community intervention trial, 10003 senior high school students and their parents were investigated by Personality Disorder Questionnaire-fourth edition, Parental Rearing Behavior Questionnaire (Egma Minnen av Bardndosnauppfor-stran, EMBU), General Information Questionnaire, and International Personality Disorder Examination (IPDE) to diagnose PD according to the criteria of ICD-10 and DSM-IV. The subjects were followed-up for three years to observe the dynamic change of personal dysfunction and to evaluate the effect of intervention measure of mental health education. The univariate and multivariate analysis methods were applied for data analyses.