NCT00714311

Efficacy of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder

A Randomized-Controlled Trial of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy vs. Treatment by Experienced Community Psychotherapists for Borderline Personality Disorder

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 104 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital Muenster · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 45 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to find out whether Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) is effective in the treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder.

Detailed description

Borderline personality disorder represents a sever clinical condition that affects 1-2% of the community and is characterized by a pervasive instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, as well as a marked impulsivity; up to 10% of the patients commit suicide. Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP) is one psychotherapeutic approach among five that have been manualized and evaluated in RCTs. So far, TFP has not been compared to a control condition which is a crucial step in the evaluation of the efficacy of a psychosocial intervention. This study is an RCT that compares one year of outpatient TFP to treatment by experienced community psychotherapists for borderline personality disorder.

Conditions

• Borderline Personality Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Transference-Focused Psychotherapy	Outpatient psychotherapy according to the treatment manual, sessions of 50 minutes twice per week
BEHAVIORAL	treatment by experienced community psychotherapists	Outpatient psychotherapy in private practices or outpatient units of psychiatric hospitals. Licensed psychotherapists with experience and special interest in the treatment of borderline patients are treating according to the method they have learned.

Timeline

• Start date: 2004-10-01
• Primary completion: 2009-02-01
• Completion: 2015-02-01
• First posted: 2008-07-14
• Last updated: 2015-02-16
• Results posted: 2015-02-16

Locations

2 sites across 2 countries: Austria, Germany