NCT00183651

Treatment of Suicidal Women With Borderline Personality Disorder

Assessment and Treatment of Parasuicidal Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 99 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Washington · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study is a component analysis of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to determine the importance of DBT skills training and DBT individual therapy in treating suicidal women with borderline personality disorder.

Detailed description

People with borderline personality disorder have limited behavioral skills and react abnormally to emotional stimulation. Standard dialectical behavior therapy (SDBT) has been shown to be an effective treatment for borderline personality disorder. This treatment combines weekly group sessions, at which patients learn new ways of dealing with their emotions, with weekly individual sessions with a therapist to discuss their emotions. The study compares SDBT to both individual DBT with no skills training and DBT skills training with no individual therapy. The study will determine whether efficacy of standard DBT is reduced when either DBT skills training or individual DBT therapy is removed. Participants are randomly assigned to receive 1 year of SDBT, DBT with group sessions but no individual sessions, and DBT with individual sessions with no group sessions. Participants are monitored for 1 year after completing their assigned therapy. Throughout the 1-year study and during the 1-year follow-up period, self-report scales and questionnaires are used to assess participants every 4 months. These scales and questionnaires measure participants' suicidal thoughts and attempts, treatment compliance, emotional coping skills, social functioning, and overall well-being.

Conditions

• Borderline Personality Disorder
• Suicide

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Standard dialectical behavior therapy (SDBT)	Standard DBT includes: 1) individual DBT therapy (1 hour per week), 2) DBT group skills training (2.5 hours per week), 3) telephone consultation (as needed), and 4) therapist consultation team (1 hour per week).
BEHAVIORAL	Individual DBT with no DBT group sessions (DBT-I)	Individual DBT (DBT-I) is 1 hour per week of individual therapy and 2.5 hours per week with the psychosocial activities group.
BEHAVIORAL	Group Skills DBT with no DBT individual sessions (DBT-S)	DBT group skills training is 2.5 hours per week and includes individual case management.

Timeline

• Start date: 2004-04-01
• Primary completion: 2008-09-01
• Completion: 2010-06-01
• First posted: 2005-09-16
• Last updated: 2012-02-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States