short term therapy in adolescents with self-destructive and risk-taking behaviours

Not Applicable

• Conditions: self-worthquality of life; X84; R45.8; F32; Intentional self-harm by unspecified means; Other symptoms and signs involving emotional state; Depressive episode

• Registration Number: DRKS00003605
• Lead Sponsor: Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie Psychosoziales Zentrum Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2012-07-10
• Study Completion: 2018-02-01
• Last Update Posted: 19 August 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Complete
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 74

Inclusion Criteria

Subjects aged between 12 and 17, who name nonsuicidal self-injury in terms of snags and burn injuries and similar injuries in at least 5 cases in the last 6 months by means of a structured clinical interview, are to be recruited for the study. The last nonsuicidal self-injury should not date back longer than a month.

Exclusion Criteria

Adolescents, who have acute psychotic symptoms as well as acute suicidal tendencies or other severe self-endangerment, which require an immediate intensive or stationary intervention, are not allowed to take part in the study. Also the existence of a mental retardation (IQ<80) is a criterion for exclusion. Also adolescents, who are already in a current therapy at the beginning of the study or who already finished a therapy, are excluded from the study.

Study & Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Main outcome is the significant reduction of the frequency of nonsuicidal self-injury in the group of subjects, who receive the treatment programme compared to the group, which receives TAU. The reduction shall be measured with the Self-Injurous Thoughts and Behaviors Interview-German (SITBI-G) at the Baseline (before therapy), the Postline (directly after therapy), the Follow- Up (6 month after therapy) and the Follow-Up 2 (24-48 months after baseline).

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Other goal criteria are to be the amelioration of well-being in the KIDSCREEN and self-worth in the Self-esteem Scale (SES) by Rosenberg as well as the reduction of depressiveness in Beck Depression Inventory (BDI- II). It shall also be examined, if the existence of a comorbid emotional disturbance, which can be diagnosed by means of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SKID-II) and the Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview-Kid (M.I.N.I.-Kid), or traumatic childhood experiences, which can be acquired by the Childhood Experience of Care and Abuse (CECA) Interview, are of use as prognostic factors. Furthermore, with the Questionnaire of patient contentedness (ZUF), it shall be examined, if the subject was content with the therapy.