Research Article

Paliperidone ER in the Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder: A Pilot Study of Efficacy and Tolerability

Table 2

Results of analysis of variance (ANOVA) for repeated measures with Bonferroni correction for multiple comparisons, performed with BPDSI total score and items “abandonment”, “interpersonal relationship”, “identity”, and “impulsivity”.

VariableMeanSDSEP

BPDSI total scoreT051.943.941.4780.001
T147.614.401.632
T244.453.781.423
AbandonmentT06.651.510.361.000
T16.351.410.33
T26.371.580.37
Interpersonal relationshipsT07.181.360.320.750
T16.721.250.30
T26.691.110.26
IdentityT02.810.750.181.000
T12.790.730.17
T22.830.700.17
ImpulsivityT07.280.770.180.001
T16.170.890.21
T25.691.140.27