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Table 3 Psychiatric symptoms of BPD patients before and after DBT

From: Increased BDNF methylation in saliva, but not blood, of patients with borderline personality disorder

 

Before treatment

After treatment

p value

GSI score (SCL90R)

2.03 ± 0.46

1.49 ± 0.67

< 0.001

PST score (SCL90R)

69.0 ± 8.79

59.31 ± 14.29

0.001

BSL23 total score

2.29 ± 0.75

1.86 ± 0.77

0.012

  1. Results from self-administered psychiatric questionnaires of 26 BPD patients before and after 12-week psychotherapeutic treatment (DBT) as means ± standard deviation. p values derive from statistical analysis with t test for paired samples