Trauma-focused therapy for borderline personality disorder: A randomized controlled, multi-center trial to test the efficacy of a trauma-focused adaption of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy in online and face-to-face formats.
- Conditions
- F60.31
- Registration Number
- DRKS00031808
- Lead Sponsor
- Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 260
1) Must be between 18 and 65 years of age
2) At least 5 of 9 DSM-5-defined criteria for BPD in the last 6 months and a BSL-23 score > 1.1
3) Agree to participate in weekly in-person or virtual treatment sessions for 12 months (with ability to travel to treatment centre with = 1h public transport)
4) Indicate they are available for at least one group group session time slots per treatment arm
5) Sufficient language skills in German or English
6) Stated willingness to comply with study procedures
7) Must be deemed to have capacity to provide informed consent and must provide written consent
1) Lifetime diagnosis of schizophrenia or schizophreniform disorder, schizoaffective disorder.
2) Lifetime diagnosis of bipolar I disorder
3) Severe psychopathology requiring immediate treatment in another setting (such as acute alcohol dependence or acute alcohol withdrawal syndrome, BMI < 17.5 or dementia)
4) Mental retardation (IQ < 85)
5) =8 weeks of DBT in the last year (structured DBT program with all components).
6) (self-disclosed) Perpetrator of sexual abuse in the past.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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