Zanarini Rating Scale for Borderline Personality Disorder
Diagnostic rating scale
The Zanarini Rating Scale for Borderline Personality Disorder (ZAN-BPD) is a standardized, diagnostic rating scale designed to measure the severity and changes in the symptoms of borderline personality disorder (BPD) over time.[1][2] The assessment was developed by Mary Zanarini and her colleagues at McLean Hospital and released in 2003.[3]
The original ZAN-BPD assessment utilizes a clinician-administered semi-structured interview format to assess each of the nine DSM-IV criteria for BPD, with the evaluation period spanning the previous week. In 2015, Zanarini and her colleagues released a self-reported version called the ZAN-BPD-SRV. In both versions of the assessment, each criterion is rated on a five-point Likert scale, from 0 (no symptoms) to 4 (severe symptoms). The sum of scores from each criterion yields the ZAN-BPD total score, which measures BPD symptom severity. This total score can range from 0, indicating no symptoms, to 36, indicating severe symptoms in all categories.[1][3][2][4]
