NCT03035110

A Feasibility Study to Evaluate Self-Harm Group in Inpatient Settings

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 24 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Essex · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The current research is being undertaken as part of a professional doctorate in clinical psychology, which aims to evaluate the feasibility of a group programme to address self-harm within 23 days, to provide evidence for a controlled trial. The intervention will include four group sessions conducted over 2 weeks, based on Dialectical Behavioural Therapy. Specifically the aims are to determine 1) means and a standard deviation for two pre and post treatment outcome measures in order to estimate sample size for the main study, 2) the need for an inpatient intervention for self-harm measured by number of participants eligible and accepting of the treatment, 3) retention of participants for 4 groups given the predicted short stays of patients on wards, and 4) the acceptability of the research process for this client group through feedback.

Conditions

• Self-Injurious Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) based skills groups	Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) involves skills that help people manage their emotions and tolerate distress. This therapy is found effective in reducing self-harm behaviour for outpatients with Borderline Personality Disorder.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-04-18
• Primary completion: 2018-05-15
• Completion: 2018-05-15
• First posted: 2017-01-27
• Last updated: 2018-06-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United Kingdom