Associations between borderline personality disorder features and the risk of first onset major depressive disorder: Findings from a 2-year longitudinal study in a sample of first-year university students in China

The objective of this study was to estimate the associations between specific BPD features on the risk of first onset MDD over 2 years and to investigate the roles of sex, baseline depression and anxiety in the associations.A longitudinal study of Chinese first-year university students aged between 15 and 24 years and who did not have a lifetime MDD (n = 7,627). Random effect logistic regression modeling was used to estimate the associations...