Reducing patient stigma amongst staff working with personality disorder

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Patient stigma amongst staff working with personality disorder.; Mental and Behavioural Disorders; Personality disorder

• Registration Number: ISRCTN36753818
• Lead Sponsor: Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust (UK)

Brief Summary

2015 results in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24963830/ (added 03/06/2020)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Completion: 2010-03-01
• Study Start: 2013-04-15
• Last Update Posted: 15 June 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 145

Inclusion Criteria

All mental health staff employed by NHS trusts and staff from other agencies who come into contact with PD patients were eligible to volunteer to participate.

Exclusion Criteria

Exclusion criteria included:
1. Involvement in development or conduct of the study
2. Involvement in other PD-related research

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
<br> 1. Attitude to Personality Disorder Questionnaire (APDQ; Bowers & Allan, 2006). We used the 40-item APDQ to assess stigmatising attitudes towards clients with a PD.<br> 2. Helping Alliance Questionnaire?Therapist Version (HAQ-II; Luborsky et al., 1996). We used the 19-item HAQ-II to measure the quality of the therapeutic relationship from the member of staff?s perspective.<br> 3. The Social Distancing Scale (SDS; Link, 1987). We modified the 7-item SDS by replacing all references to ?mental illness? with ?personality disorder?, and used the revised version to assess the extent to which staff distanced themselves from their PD clients.<br><br> All outcomes were measured at the same time points: baseline, post-intervention and at 6-month follow-up.<br>