. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 1.

Published in final edited form as: Personal Disord. 2015 Jan;6(1):81–87. doi: 10.1037/per0000091

Table 2.

Estimated percentage of adults with borderline personality disorder (BPD) in the NESARC excluded from typical clinical trials of psychotherapy treatments for BPD by traditional exclusion criteria.

	Borderline personality disorder patients (n = 2,231)

Exclusion variable^*	% (N)	95% CI

Psychosis	5.22 (121)	4.11 – 6.60

Intellectual disability	NA	NA

Currently/past 12 months’ alcohol or drug abuse or dependence	29.87 (618)	27.48 – 32.37

Lifetime bipolar disorder	29.71 (663)	27.39 – 32.14

Currently receiving psychotherapy	NA	NA

Exclusion by at least one criterion	51.29 (1,106)	48.80 – 53.78

Percentages are weighted values.

Derived from the review of 27 psychotherapy clinical trials (method described in the paper).

Abbreviations: CI = confidence interval, NA = not available in NESARC, NESARC = National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions.