NCT03018639

Impact of Therapist Change on Dropout in a Naturalistic Sample of Inpatients With Borderline Pathology Receiving DBT

Impact of Therapist Change After Initial Contact and Traumatic Burden on Dropout in a Naturalistic Sample of Inpatients With Borderline Pathology Receiving Dialectical Behavior Therapy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 89 (actual)
• Sponsor: Evangelisches Krankenhaus Bielefeld gGmbH · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Participants with Borderline pathology (≥ 3 DSM-IV-criteria) receiving an inpatient Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) program completed a quality assurance questionnaire set assessing demographic information and pretreatment psychopathology during the days of their inpatient stay. Beyond that, changes of therapists were documented.

Conditions

• Borderline Personality Disorder
• PostTraumatic Stress Disorder
• Psychotherapy
• Dropout

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Dialectical Behavior Therapy	DBT is a cognitive-behavioral treatment program that was developed to treat suicidal Patients with BPD (Linehan, 1993).

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-12-01
• Primary completion: 2016-08-01
• Completion: 2016-08-01
• First posted: 2017-01-12
• Last updated: 2017-01-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany