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The ICHOM Set of Patient-Centered Outcome Measures for Personality Disorders is the result of hard work by a group of leading psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health experts, measurement experts, and lived experience experts. It represents the outcomes that matter most to adults and adolescents with personality disorders. We urge all providers around the world to start measuring these outcomes to better understand how to improve the lives of their service users.

  1. Defined by Emotional Distress/Emotional Pain
  2. Defined by Affective Lability/Emotional Dysregulation
  3. Defined by Self-harm/Self-injury
  4. Defined by Overt Aggression
  5. Defined by Global/Daily Functioning/Disability
  6. Tracked via the Level of Personality Functioning Scale – Brief Form 2.0
  7. Tracked via the Recovering Quality of Life – 10-Item Version
  8. Tracked via the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale – 16-Item Version
  9. Tracked via the Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale – Screener/Recent – Self-Report
  10. Tracked via the Modified Overt Aggression Scale
  11. Tracked via the WHO Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 – 12-Item Version
  12. Tracked via the KIDSCREEN-10 Index in Adolescent Specialist Services
  13. Tracked via the PROMIS Short Form v2.0 – Social Isolation 4a
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Team that developed this set

PROJECT TEAM
Chair | Mike Crawford | Imperial College London
Research Fellow | Valentina Prevolnik Rupel | Institute for Economic Research
Project Managers | Beth Jagger / Luz Sousa Fialho | ICHOM
Research Associates | Lisa-Marie Chadderton / Timea Gintner | ICHOM

AUSTRALIA
Andrew Chanen | Orygen / The University of Melbourne

BELGIUM
Charlotte Delvaux | Te gek!?*
Fieke van Gorp*

CANADA
Lucie Langford | University of Toronto*

MEXICO
Karla Patricia Pacheco Alvarado | Tecnologico de Monterrey, Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud

NETHERLANDS
Anroud Arntz | Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Amsterdam
Jan van Busschbach | Erasmus MC

NEW ZEALAND
Brian McKenna | Auckalnd University of Technology

NORWAY
Åse-Line Baltzersen | The Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Personality Psychiatry
Wei Wang | Norwegian University of Science and Technology

UNITED KINGDOM
Julia Blazdell | West London Health Trust*
Karen M. Wright | University of Central Lancashire
Marika Cencelli*
Paul Moran | Centre for Academic Mental Health, Department of Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol

UNITED STATES
Carla Sharp | University of Houston

*Patient representative

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