Mentalisation-Based Treatment versus care-as-usual in the treatment of severe borderline personality disorders.
- Conditions
- Severe Borderline Personality Disorders
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 108
Inclusion Criteria
A severe BPD on the basis of standardised criteria for borderline personality disorder and assessed with the Dutch version of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R (SCID-II) (13), and the Borderline Personality Disorder Severity Index (BPDSI) (14). Patients must meet the criteria for borderline personality disorder as determined with the SCID-II and have a total score on the BPDSI of at least 24, indicating a severe BPD. Patients with co-morbid personality disorders will not be excluded.
Exclusion Criteria
Patients will be excluded if they meet one of the following criteria:
1. Schizophrenia, as determined with the SCID-I;
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The frequency and severity of manifestations of BPD as measured with the BPDSI. The BPDSI is a semi structured interview, developed to assess short-term BPD pathology as defined by DSM-III-R/DSM-IV criteria (APA, 1987, 1994).
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Number of suicide acts;<br /><br>2. Self-mutilation;<br /><br>3. Depression;<br /><br>4. Subjective experiences of symptoms;<br /><br>5. Social and interpersonal functioning;<br /><br>6. Personality functioning;<br /><br>7. Quality of life;<br /><br>8. Treatment adherence.