Families and Carers Training and Support Programme (FACTS) - for families of people with a Borderline Personality Disorder diagnosis
Completed
- Conditions
- Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)Mental and Behavioural Disorders
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN39303837
- Lead Sponsor
- Barnet, Enfield And Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 40
Inclusion Criteria
Must have a family member, friend, partner, or be otherwise involved with someone who has a clinical diagnosis of BPD or emerging personality disorder.
Exclusion Criteria
1. Non-English speaking families
2. The family member with BPD has a history of schizoaffective disorder or schizophrenia
3. The family member with BPD has active psychosis
4. The family member with BPD has a severe substance addiction.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The primary outcome objective will be to reduce family incidents and increase family empowerment. It is hypothesised that this will lead to less crisis service use such as hospitalisation, police, A&E by the identified family member with BPD. Thus there will be improvements in the extent to which the family is able to cope with incidents. Incidents are defined as an emotional, behavioural, relationship, or other problems as reported in a weekly incident diary which are related to symptoms of borderline personality disorder and lead to family distress. They include any event which is usually recurrent that creates an interpersonal problem between family members such as withdrawal and refusal to speak, aggressive outbursts (verbal or physical), threats of self harm, suicide attempts. Weekly incident diaries will be completed by participants prior to starting the course and throughout their involvement in the trial.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The secondary objective will focus on the wellbeing of the family by:<br>1. Improving the well-being of the attendees; <br>2. Increasing their understanding of the condition; <br>3. Helping them support the family member to access and use appropriately available services; <br>4. Engendering greater empowerment <br><br>These outcomes will be measured using a series of questionnaires before and after the intervention:<br>1. Beck Depression Inventory <br>2. Burden Assessment Scale<br>3. Family Empowerment Questionnaire<br>4. State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI)<br>5. SCORE 15<br>6.The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS)