Parenting Skills for Mothers With Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

NCT ID: NCT04169048

Last Updated: 2020-02-05

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 240 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2020-02-04
• Study Completion Date: 2023-03-31

Brief Summary

The first disorder-specific parenting training program for mothers with Borderline Personality Disorder (M-BPD) is evaluated in a randomized controlled trial.

The training program is expected to have positive effects on parenting behavior, decrease the risk of maltreatment of the child, and improve emotion regulation in mothers at post treatment and at 6-month follow-up compared to a control group (treatment as usual; TAU).

Additionally, disorder-specific aspects of dysfunctional parenting behavior as well as BPD-specific aspects of child maltreatment are compared to a clinical control group (mothers with anxiety and/or depression, M-AD/D) and a healthy control group (M-CON).

To assess the differential development of parenting, the risk of maltreatment and emotion dysregulation in untreated M-BPD are compared to M-CON. The investigators expect the difference to increase over time, indicating a worsening in BPD parenting.

Conditions

Borderline Personality Disorder; Mothers

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Intervention group (BPD)

Participants (N=60) receive the weekly conducted intervention (group training for mothers with BPD) over the period of 12 weeks (12 sessions). Assessments of each participant: T0 (pre-intervention), T1 (post-intervention) and follow-up (6 months after T1).

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Group training for mothers with Borderline Personality Disorder

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The group programme is designed to teach mothers with BPD parenting skills and to reduce dysfunctional parenting attitudes and strategies. The components are: childrens basics needs, mindfulness, stress and stress reduction, dealing with conflicts, dealing with emotions, dysfunctional attitudes, physical contact, parenting rules, self care.

waiting control group (BPD)

Members of this group (N=60) receive no intervention but treatment as usual (TAU). After completing all assessment points (T0, T1, T2), they can receive the intervention of the intervention group (group training).

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

clinical control group (AD/MDD)

Mothers with anxiety and/or depression (N=60) receive no intervention. Assessment point only T0.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

healthy control group

Mothers with no actual mental disorder (N=60) receive no intervention.# Assessment points T0, T1, T2.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Group training for mothers with Borderline Personality Disorder

The group programme is designed to teach mothers with BPD parenting skills and to reduce dysfunctional parenting attitudes and strategies. The components are: childrens basics needs, mindfulness, stress and stress reduction, dealing with conflicts, dealing with emotions, dysfunctional attitudes, physical contact, parenting rules, self care.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

1. diagnosed with BPD (assessed via SCID-PD)

2. running or completed therapy for BPD symptoms

3. child between 6 months and 6 years

4. living with child or regular (weekly) contact

1. diagnosed with acute affective or anxiety disorder (assessed via SCID-CV)

2. child between 6 months and 6 years

3. living with child or regular (weekly) contact

1. child between 6 months and 6 years

2. living with child or regular (weekly) contact

Exclusion Criteria

1. Acute child endangerment

2. maternal acute suicidality

3. maternal psychotic symptoms (assessed via SCID-CV)

4. maternal acute alcohol or drug dependency (assessed via SCID-CV)

5. maternal diagnosed intellectual disability.

1. Acute child endangerment

2. maternal acute suicidality

3. maternal psychotic symptoms (assessed via SCID-CV)

4. maternal acute alcohol or drug dependency (assessed via SCID-CV)

5. maternal diagnosed intellectual disability

6. lifetime diagnosis of BPD (assessed via SCID-PD)

1. Acute child endangerment

2. maternal acute suicidality

3. maternal psychotic symptoms (assessed via SCID-CV)

4. maternal acute alcohol or drug dependency (assessed via SCID-CV)

5. maternal diagnosed intellectual disability.

6. lifetime diagnosis of BPD (assessed via SCID-PD)

7. any acute mental disorder (assessed via SCID-CV)

8. current psychotherapy

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Ruhr University of Bochum

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

University of Bremen

OTHER

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Freie Universität Berlin

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Babette Renneberg

Professor of Clinical Psychology

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Babette Renneberg, Prof.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Freie Universität Berlin

Locations

Freie Universität Berlin

Berlin, , Germany

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

Germany

Central Contacts

Charlotte Rosenbach, Dr.

Role: CONTACT

c.rosenbach@fu-berlin.de

00493083851258

Facility Contacts

Anne Trösken

Role: primary

References

Buck-Hostkotte, S., Renneberg, B. & Rosenbach, C. (2015). Mütter mit Borderline-Persönlichkeitsstörung. Das Trainingsmanual "Borderline und Mutter sein". Weinheim: Beltz.

Reference Type: BACKGROUND

Rosenbach C, Heinrichs N, Kumsta R, Schneider S, Renneberg B. Study protocol for a multi-center RCT testing a group-based parenting intervention tailored to mothers with borderline personality disorder against a waiting control group (ProChild*-SP1). Trials. 2022 Jul 23;23(1):589. doi: 10.1186/s13063-022-06531-2.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 35870944 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

RenRos02

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id