Reduction of suicidal relapses among adolescents with borderline personality due to specialized inpatient treatment

Conditions: F60
Specific personality disorders

Registration Number: DRKS00022116

Lead Sponsor: niklinik Köln. Klinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Complete

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 152

Inclusion Criteria

Treatment in the dayclinic for adolescents between 2014 and 2019 or inclusion in original control group between 2014 and 2019.
- Original written consent to participate in the study after adolescents were informed about the study.
- Additional verbal consent during follow-up.
- A diagnosis of a personality disorder according to DSM-IV, assesses with the International Personality Disorder Examination.

Inclusion criteria for control group:
Diagnosis of a personality disorder and imformed consent to participate in study.

Exclusion Criteria

Exclusion criteria are missing reading knowledge of the German language; an IQ below 70, a disorder from the schizophrenic spectrum; any other disorders of perception, cognition and affectivity which influence neuropsychological testing.

Study & Design

Study Type: observational

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1. Reduction of emergency relapses with hospital admittances in study completers. Instrument Sources: Data from clinic documantation system. <br> Telephone Interview (Modified Child Psychiatric Questionnaire, McCormack, 2015)<br><br>2. Association between structural disorder and number of relapses in study completers. Instruments: <br>IPO-A – Inventory of Personality Organization for Adolescents (Clarkin, Foelsch & Kernberg, 2001).<br>STIPO – Structured Interview of Personality Organization (Clarkin et al., 2007).<br>IPDE – International Personality Disorder Examination (Loranger et al., 1994).<br>DAPP – Dimensional Assessment of Personality Pathology (Livesley & Jackson, 2001). <br><br>

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1. Reduction of suicidality and self-harming behavior in study completers. <br>2. Greater decrease of self-harm in study completers who also received skills training (Neacsiu et al. 2010).<br>3. Reduction of interpersonal difficulties in study completers. <br><br>Instruments: <br>FSSV – Fragebogen zu selbstverletzendem Verhalten (Reicherzer & Brandl, 2011).<br>MOAS – Modified Overt Aggression Scale (Huang et al., 2009).<br>IIP-D – Inventory of Interpersonal Problems (Horowitz, Strauß & Kordy, 2000).<br>Data from clinic documantation system. <br><br>4. Improvement in identity diffusion in study completers. Instrument: <br>IPO-A – Inventory of Personality Organization for Adolescents (Clarkin, Foelsch & Kernberg, 2001)