OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the study was to assess the prevalence of @entity4785 in an inner-city outpatient @entity146 population. METHOD: Subjects were 231 consecutive admissions (84 @entity1 and 147 @entity1 , mean age=37 years) to an inner-city, hospital-based outpatient @entity146 clinic. The subjects completed self-report measures of dissociation (Dissociative Experiences Scale) and @entity130 history ( @entity130 Experiences Questionnaire). Eighty-two @entity1 (35%) completed a structured interview for @entity4785 ( @entity4785 Interview Schedule). RESULTS: The 82 @entity1 who were interviewed did not differ significantly on any demographic measure or on the self-report measures of @entity130 and dissociation from the 149 @entity1 who were not interviewed. Twenty-four (29%) of the 82 interviewed @entity1 received a diagnosis of a @entity4785 . @entity5748 was diagnosed in five (6%) @entity1 . Compared to the @entity1 without a @entity4785 diagnosis, @entity1 with a @entity4785 were significantly more likely to report childhood physical abuse (71% versus 27%) and childhood @entity458 (74% versus 29%), but the two groups did not differ significantly on any demographic measure, including gender. Chart review revealed that only four (5%) @entity1 in whom a @entity4785 was identified during the study had previously received a @entity4785 diagnosis. CONCLUSIONS: @entity4785 were highly prevalent in this clinical population and typically had not been previously diagnosed clinically. The high prevalence of @entity4785 found in this study may be related to methodological factors (all @entity1 were offered an interview rather than only those who had scored high on a screening self-report measure) and epidemiological factors (extremely high prevalence rates for childhood physical and @entity458 were present in the overall study population).

Prevalence of @entity4785 in XXXX outpatients.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['women', 'patients', 'men'] @entity146 :: ('MESH:D001523', 'Disease') :: ['psychiatric'] @entity4785 :: ('MESH:D004213', 'Disease') :: ['dissociative disorder', 'Dissociative Disorders', 'dissociative disorders', 'DSM-IV dissociative disorders', 'Dissociative disorders'] @entity5748 :: ('MESH:D009105', 'Disease') :: ['Dissociative identity disorder'] @entity458 :: ('MESH:D020018', 'Disease') :: ['sexual abuse'] @entity130 :: ('MESH:D014947', 'Disease') :: ['Traumatic', 'trauma']
@entity146 :: (MESH:D001523,Disease) :: ['psychiatric']
