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Clinical Trials/NCT00131781
NCT00131781UnknownNot Applicable

Cognitive Therapy Versus Supportive Therapy in Borderline Personality Disorder

Hospices Civils de Lyon1 site in 1 country70 target enrollmentStarted: March 1, 2001Last updated:
Conditions

Trial Snapshot

Phase
Not Applicable
Enrollment
70
Locations
1
Primary Endpoint
Clinical Global Impression (CGI): Improvement (1-7): score 3 ( a little better) associated with a hopelessness scale score < 8 (this means that the suicide risk is low)

Study Overview

Brief Summary

This is a randomised trial comparing cognitive therapy and supportive therapy administered along one year in borderline personality disorder. The follow-up is one year after treatments end.

The therapists were the same in the two groups. Patients received one session a week during six months and one session every two weeks during the next six months

Detailed Description

  • Cognitive Therapy
  • Structured session
  • Conceptualization of the case with the patient
  • Cognitive methods
  • Guided discovery of the schemas
  • Work on life-scenarios
  • From scenarios to schemas
  • Empathic confrontation to the schemas
  • Building new schemas (Core belief work-sheet)
  • Affective methods: role playing
  • Interpersonal methods: counter transference issues
  • Behavioral experiment
  • Problem solving
  • Consolidation methods
  • Patients and therapists had manuals
  • Supportive Therapy
  • Therapist: active listening (face to face)
  • Empathy
  • Unconditional positive regard
  • Reformulation and clarification
  • Reflection of the patient's feelings
  • Reassurance
  • Therapist emphasizes the importance to ventilate problems
  • Therapist answers some factual questions
  • Therapist politely ignore or refuse requests for advice and directive attitudes
  • Therapist demonstrates warmth and genuineness
  • Patients and therapists had manuals

Study Design

Study Type
Interventional
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention Model
Parallel
Masking
Single

Eligibility Criteria

Ages
18 Years to 65 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
Sex
All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
No

Inclusion Criteria

  • •DSM-4 DIBR >=8 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Diagnostic inventory for borderline-revised)

Exclusion Criteria

  • Not provided

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Clinical Global Impression (CGI): Improvement (1-7): score 3 ( a little better) associated with a hopelessness scale score < 8 (this means that the suicide risk is low)

Secondary Outcomes

  • CGI severity and improvement
  • Hamilton depression
  • Beck Depression Inventory
  • Hopelessness
  • Young: Schema Questionnaire II
  • Structured Clinical Interview for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition Personality Disorders Personality Questionnaire (SCID II PQ)
  • Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) (minimult)
  • Eysenck: impulsivity scale
  • Checklist: impulsive risky behaviors
  • Quality of life
  • Handicap (Sheehan)
  • Time: Pre test, six months, post test and one year post treatment follow-up
  • Therapeutic relationship evaluation scale (patients and therapists)

Investigators

Sponsor Class
Other

Study Sites (1)

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