A Feasibility Study to Evaluate Self-Harm Group in Inpatient Settings

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Self-Injurious Behavior
• Interventions: Behavioral: Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) based skills groups

• Registration Number: NCT03035110
• Lead Sponsor: University of Essex

Brief Summary

The current research is being undertaken as part of a professional doctorate in clinical psychology, which aims to evaluate the feasibility of a group programme to address self-harm within 23 days, to provide evidence for a controlled trial. The intervention will include four group sessions conducted over 2 weeks, based on Dialectical Behavioural Therapy. Specifically the aims are to determine 1) means and a standard deviation for two pre and post treatment outcome measures in order to estimate sample size for the main study, 2) the need for an inpatient intervention for self-harm measured by number of participants eligible and accepting of the treatment, 3) retention of participants for 4 groups given the predicted short stays of patients on wards, and 4) the acceptability of the research process for this client group through feedback.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2017-01-25
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-01-26
• Study First Posted: 2017-01-27
• Study Start: 2017-04-18
• Primary Completion: 2018-05-15
• Study Completion: 2018-05-15
• Status Verified: 2018-06
• Last Update Submitted: 2018-06-01
• Last Update Posted: 2018-06-04

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 24

Inclusion Criteria

• Participants will be screened by their allocated clinician and included if they are aged between 18-65
• admitted to hospital
• have a history of or engaged in at least one episode of self-harm, iv) have capacity to understand the information sheet.

Exclusion Criteria

• Participants will be screened by clinicians and they will exclude people if i) they are Non-English speakers (due to translation costs)
• they lack the capacity to give informed consent (assessed by their key clinician)
• their symptoms prevent them from concentrating for an hour at a time (i.e. severe thought disorder), and therefore not benefiting from the group (assessed by their key clinician)

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) skills group	Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) based skills groups	Four group sessions, based on DBT, over two weeks, with a group of four to eight participants in attendance located on the hospital ward where the participant is a patient.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The Inventory of Statements About Self-Injury (ISAS)	23 days	ISAS is a self-report measure designed to assess the function and frequency of deliberate self-harm. It will be administered pre- and post-intervention.
The Distress Tolerance Scale (DTS)	23 days	The DTS consists of 15 items, which measure a person's appraisal of their emotional distress, their ability to tolerate this distress and any regulation efforts to alleviate it. It will be administered pre- and post-intervention.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Goodmayes Hospital; 🇬🇧 Ilford, Essex, United Kingdom