Emotional Reaction and Self Injury in Patients With Borderline Personality Disorder and Healthy Controls

• Conditions: Borderline Personality Disorder; Emotions
• Interventions: Other: Stimuli presentation

• Registration Number: NCT03149926
• Lead Sponsor: Katharina Bachmann

Brief Summary

The current study investigates the emotional response of patients with borderline personality disorder and healthy controls on stimuli associated with self-injury.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2017-05
• Study First Submitted: 2017-05-09
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-05-09
• Study First Posted: 2017-05-11
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-05-11
• Last Update Posted: 2017-05-12
• Study Start: 2017-06
• Primary Completion: 2017-12
• Study Completion: 2018-02

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 60

Inclusion Criteria

• Patients that are able to use skills and have some therapy experiences.

Exclusion Criteria

• Severe psychiatric comorbidity e.g. psychosis, severe depression, suicidality

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder	Stimuli presentation	-
Healthy controls	Stimuli presentation	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Emotional reaction	one session of 90min	Patients comparded to healthy controls will show a stronger emotional reaction on the stimuli.; Patients more severely affected will show a stronger emotional reaction compared to less affected patients.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy - University Hospital, University of Oldenburg; 🇩🇪 Bad Zwischenahn, Germany