Effectiveness of a 24 Hour Phone Line on the Rate of Suicide Attempts in Borderline Patients

NCT ID: NCT00603421

Last Updated: 2016-02-25

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 318 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2009-02-28
• Study Completion Date: 2014-12-31

Brief Summary

This randomized multicentric clinical trial assesses the effectiveness of 24 hour phone line on the rate of suicide attempts and self-injurious behaviors in borderline patients.

Detailed Description

Borderline personality disorder is very frequent among psychiatric populations, and chronic suicidality is a major problem in clinical practice with borderline patients. In a lot of countries, suicide prevention centers are available, but most of these centers are not supervised by professionals of mental health, and none is specifically oriented to the borderline population.

The main goal of this study is to assess the effectiveness of a 24 hour crisis phone line on the rate of suicide attempts in a clinical population of borderline patients (the effectiveness of this phone line access on the rate of self-injurious behaviours will also be studied).

In this multicentric controlled trial, 600 borderline patients (men or women, in or out-patients, between 18 and 40 years-old) are randomized in two arms :

• one with treatment as usual
• one with treatment as usual, PLUS one year of access to a 24 hour crisis phone line (with a team of psychiatrists specialized in borderline personality disorder).

All patients are assessed with standardized instruments (interviewers are blind to the patient's status), at entry (T1) and one year later (T2).

Conditions

Borderline Personality Disorder

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

1

Patient benefits from treatment as usual plus access to a crisis 24 hour phone line.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

24 hour phone line

Intervention Type: OTHER

24 hour phone line is available as soon as the patient himself feels necessary. This phone line is supported by professionals of mental health, all specialised in borderline personality disorder

2

Patient benefits from treatment as usual

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

treatment as usual

Intervention Type: OTHER

Treatment as usual

Interventions

24 hour phone line

24 hour phone line is available as soon as the patient himself feels necessary. This phone line is supported by professionals of mental health, all specialised in borderline personality disorder

Intervention Type: OTHER

treatment as usual

Treatment as usual

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• 18 to 40 years old
• in or out-patient in one of the recruiting center
• men or women
• with a borderline personality disorder
• written informed consent

Exclusion Criteria

• inferior to 18 or superior to 40 years old
• schizophrenia
• severe somatic disorder
• participation refusal
• participation to another interventional study

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 40 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Alexandra Pham-Scottez, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Centre Hospitalier Sainte Anne

Locations

Hôpital St Anne

Paris, , France

Hopital Cochin Centre de recherche Clinique Paris Centre

Paris, , France

Countries

France

References

Witt KG, Hetrick SE, Rajaram G, Hazell P, Taylor Salisbury TL, Townsend E, Hawton K. Psychosocial interventions for self-harm in adults. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2021 Apr 22;4(4):CD013668. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD013668.pub2.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 33884617 (View on PubMed)

Storebo OJ, Stoffers-Winterling JM, Vollm BA, Kongerslev MT, Mattivi JT, Jorgensen MS, Faltinsen E, Todorovac A, Sales CP, Callesen HE, Lieb K, Simonsen E. Psychological therapies for people with borderline personality disorder. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2020 May 4;5(5):CD012955. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD012955.pub2.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 32368793 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

AOM 05062

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id