Intensified, Inpatient Adaptation of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

NCT ID: NCT01904227

Last Updated: 2014-11-11

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

150 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2012-02-29

Study Completion Date

2015-04-30

Brief Summary

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An randomized clinical trial to investigate whether among adult borderline patients (18 - 40 year), intensified inpatient short term (12 weeks) inpatient Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is more effective in declining the proportion of patients that show suicidal/self-harming behavior in the first 3 months of treatment, compared to standard outpatient DBT, and whether this difference between the groups is sustained at 6 and 12 months.

Detailed Description

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Objective: Goal is to evaluate the (cost-)effectiveness of a short term intensive DBT treatment program (12 weeks) versus outpatient DBT, in terms of reduction of suicidal and/or self-harming behavior, and of general BPD symptomatology severity.

Study design: A randomized trial, analyzed by a intention-to-treat (ITT) approach, with two parallel groups: a) intensified adapted DBT program (12 weeks inpatient program, plus six months standard outpatient DBT, n=36); b) standard outpatient DBT for 12 months (n=36).

Study population: All borderline patients (18-40 years), who will be admitted from January 2013 till June 2014 for treatment in the Jelgersma Treatment Centre, or the outpatient DBT programs of Rivierduinen, who: (1) receive a diagnosis of BPD, (2) have shown suicidal and/or self-harming behavior in the year preceding the admission/ start of DBT treatment, including the last month preceding baseline measurement, and (3) show a severe level of borderline symptomatology (\> 24 on the BPDSI).

Intervention:

All patients receive DBT according to the basic DBT treatment protocol. Treatment integrity is established by supervision in both groups.

Outcome measures Main study parameter is the number of suicide attempts/self-harming acts (the Life Time Parasuicide Count and the Parasuicide Scale of the Borderline Personality Severity Index). Second study parameter is the severity of borderline symptomatology (BPDSI). Quality of life as measured on the SF-36, and the EQ-5D and psychopathological symptoms (BSI) will also be taken into account. The cost-effectiveness of the inpatient program compared to the outpatient program will be examined (TiC-P).

Sample size. The researchers expect that after 12 weeks of treatment, 20% of the patients of the intervention group still show suicidal and/or self-harming behavior compared to 60% of the patients in the control condition, and that this difference sustains after 24 weeks and will be gradually reduced between 24 and 52 weeks by the additional reduction in suicidal and/or self-harming behavior in the control group. To be able to detect a difference of 40% after 12 weeks, with a power of 0.80 and α = 0.05, 36 patients per experimental condition are required. The researchers expect to recruit about 150 patients, which guarantees enough power, even with a 20% drop out rate.

Conditions

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Borderline Personality Disorder

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Inpatient Adaptation of DBT

Patients are in treatment 5 days a week, during 12 weeks. Staff is only present in daytime. During the weekends the patients stay at home.

The therapy consists of DBT skills training (Linehan, 1996), individual psychotherapy (Linehan, 2002), crisis consultation if needed, and weekly meetings of the consultation team for all trainers and therapists for one hour. Staff also receives supervision twice-weekly.

Patients also receive daily mindfulness classes, 2 hours of drama therapy, psycho educational classes about sexuality, substance abuse and medication, and the possibility to get help in applying principles of validation and behavioral analysis skills.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Inpatient Adaptation of DBT

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

The intervention to be studied, inpatient DBT, consists of an inpatient program of 12 weeks. The department provides accommodation for 9 patients. Patients are admitted 5 days a week at the department Oost, part of the Jelgersma centre for Personality Disorders. Staff is only present in daytime. During the weekends the patients stay at home.

The therapy consists of DBT skills training (Linehan, 1996), individual psychotherapy (Linehan, 2002), crisis consultation if needed, and weekly meetings of the consultation team for all trainers and therapists for one hour. Staff also receives supervision twice-weekly.

Outpatient DBT

Control condition: Standard outpatient DBT

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

standard outpatient DBT

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Patients receive 12 months of outpatient treatment as specified in the DBT manual (Linehan, 2002) in one of the participating regional psychiatric centers of Rivierduinen. The treatment is according to protocol and combines weekly individual cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy sessions with the primary therapist, weekly skills- training groups, if needed consultation and weekly consultation meetings for trainers and therapists.

Interventions

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standard outpatient DBT

Patients receive 12 months of outpatient treatment as specified in the DBT manual (Linehan, 2002) in one of the participating regional psychiatric centers of Rivierduinen. The treatment is according to protocol and combines weekly individual cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy sessions with the primary therapist, weekly skills- training groups, if needed consultation and weekly consultation meetings for trainers and therapists.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Inpatient Adaptation of DBT

The intervention to be studied, inpatient DBT, consists of an inpatient program of 12 weeks. The department provides accommodation for 9 patients. Patients are admitted 5 days a week at the department Oost, part of the Jelgersma centre for Personality Disorders. Staff is only present in daytime. During the weekends the patients stay at home.

The therapy consists of DBT skills training (Linehan, 1996), individual psychotherapy (Linehan, 2002), crisis consultation if needed, and weekly meetings of the consultation team for all trainers and therapists for one hour. Staff also receives supervision twice-weekly.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Patients admitted in the period of January 2013 until January 2014
* patients who fulfill the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-IV Text Revision criteria for BPD,
* patients who have shown suicidal and/or self-harming behavior in the year preceding the admission/ start of DBT treatment, including the last month preceding baseline measurement,
* patients who show a severe level of borderline symptomatology ( \> 24 on the BPDSI),
* patients who are in sufficient command of the Dutch language

Exclusion Criteria

* Intelligence Quotient \< 80,
* a chronic psychotic condition,
* bipolar disorder,
* hard drug abuse that requires inpatient detoxification,
* forced treatment framework,
* DBT in the year preceding intake.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

40 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Erasmus Medical Center

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

GGZ Rivierduinen

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Louisa M van den Bosch, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

GGZ Rivierduinen

Locations

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LMC van den Bosch

Oegstgeest, , Netherlands

Site Status

Countries

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Netherlands

References

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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)

Sinnaeve R, van den Bosch LMC, Hakkaart-van Roijen L, Vansteelandt K. Effectiveness of step-down versus outpatient dialectical behaviour therapy for patients with severe levels of borderline personality disorder: a pragmatic randomized controlled trial. Borderline Personal Disord Emot Dysregul. 2018 Jul 10;5:12. doi: 10.1186/s40479-018-0089-5. eCollection 2018.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 30002832 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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Rivierduinen 2012

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id