Dialectical Behavior Therapy Versus General Psychiatric Management in the Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder/Dr. McMain Replies

Confidence intervals are therefore important in understanding the authors' conclusion that study results "legitimize the recommendations of the APA practice guideline on the management of borderline personality disorder" (1, p. 1372) using general psychiatric management. Because of sp...

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Published in:The American journal of psychiatry 2010-04, Vol.167 (4), p.475
Main Authors: Case, Brady G, McMain, Shelley F
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Behavior
Child & adolescent psychiatry
Clinical trials
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Summary:Confidence intervals are therefore important in understanding the authors' conclusion that study results "legitimize the recommendations of the APA practice guideline on the management of borderline personality disorder" (1, p. 1372) using general psychiatric management. Because of space limitations, we omitted this information. [...] upon examining our results, even if the study were much larger and had sufficient power to detect a difference, that difference would not have been clinically important.
ISSN:0002-953X
1535-7228