Evaluation of a group training for adolescents (Emotion Regulation Training) with emotion regulation problems - a randomised controlled clinical trial

Completed

Conditions: Borderline personality disorder in adolescents
Mental and Behavioural Disorders
Behavioural disorders

Registration Number: ISRCTN97589104

Lead Sponsor: Accare (The Netherlands)

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Completed

Sex: Not specified

Target Recruitment: 128

Inclusion Criteria

1. Aged 14 to 18 years
2. Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days
3. At least two other Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - Fourth Edition (DSM-IV) criteria of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
4. Minimum score of 15 on the Borderline Personality Disorder Severity Index - adolescent version

Exclusion Criteria

1. Psychotic disorders (except short, reactive psychotic episodes)
2. Conduct disorder
3. Addiction of such severity that clinical detoxification is indicated
4. Mental retardation (Intelligence Quotient [IQ] less than 80)

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Primary outcome measures at baseline, directly after the training and at six months follow-up: <br>1. Severity of Borderline Personality symptoms (Borderline Personality Disorder Severity Index for adolescents, fourth version [BPDSI-IV-adolescents], semi-structured interview) measuring the current severity and frequency of the DSM-IV BPD manifestations<br>2. Life Problems Inventory (LPI, questionnaire), measuring the main symptoms of BPD

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Secondary outcome measures at baseline, directly after the training and at six months follow-up:<br>1. DSM diagnosis axis II (Personality Diagnostic Questionnaire [PDQ-4], parts of kiddie-Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia [k-SADS] and Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV [SCID-II])<br>2. Mental health disorders (Child Depression Inventory [CDI], Rutgers Alcohol Problems Index [RAPI], Symptom Check List [SCL-90], Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire [SDQ])<br>3. Locus of Control (Multidimensional Anxiety Locus of Control scale [MALC-ERT])<br>4. Quality of Life (Youth Quality Of Life [YQOL])<br>5. Raising style, parental stress and parental functioning (EMBU, PSI and GHQ)<br>6. Consumption of public health services<br>7. global functioning (CGAS or GAF score)