TABLE 2.

Baseline Social, Demographic, and Clinical Characteristics of 124 Outpatients With Borderline Personality Disorder, by Treatment Assignment

Characteristic	Treatment Assignment				All Subjects (N=124)
	STEPPS Plus Treatment as Usual (N=65)		Treatment as Usual Alone (N=59)
	N	%	N	%	N	%
Gender
Female	52	80	51	86	103	83
Male	13	20	8	14	21	17
Race/ethnicity
Caucasian	62	95	55	93	117	94
African American	1	2	2	3	3	2
Other	2	3	2	3	4	3
Marital status
Never married	27	42	23	39	50	40
Married/living together	21	32	20	34	41	33
Divorced/separated	17	26	16	27	33	27
Education
<High school	2	3	4	7	6	5
High school	10	15	15	25	25	20
Some college	38	59	27	46	65	52
College degree	9	14	11	19	20	16
Graduate degree	6	9	2	3	8	6
Employment
Employed	28	43	20	34	48	39
Disabled	18	28	14	24	32	26
Other (e.g., student)	19	29	25	42	44	35
Past psychiatric hospitalizationa	38	69	30	75	68	72
Prior suicide attempts	47	72	44	75	91	73
Prior self-harm	45	69	44	75	89	72
Current individual therapy	41	63	32	54	73	59
Current major depressive disorder	44	68	46	78	90	73
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Age (years)	31.4	8.8	31.6	10.3	31.5	9.5
Psychotropic medications	3.0	2.5	2.7	2.1	2.9	2.3
Lifetime DSM-IV axis I disorders	4.8	2.4	5.0	2.6	4.9	2.5
DSM-IV personality disorders	3.1	1.7	3.7	1.9	3.4	1.8
DSM-IV borderline personality disorder criteria	7.6	1.3	7.7	1.2	7.6	1.2

^aTotal N=95 (55 in STEPPS plus treatment as usual, 40 in treatment as usual alone).