Pilot study of the efficacy of a psychosocial intervention for frequent parasuicide attempters with personality disturbance

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ISRCTN

Registry ID

ISRCTN28223466

Enrollment

Registered

2004-01-23

Start date

1996-01-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2015-01-13

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Conditions

Mental and behavioural disorders: Other mental disorder Mental and Behavioural Disorders Personality disorder

Interventions

1. Psychological treatment using a psychoeducational and problem solving approach to suicide behaviour: manual-assisted cognitive-behaviour therapy (MACT) 2. Standard care

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Efficacy of a new brief manualised form of cognitive behaviour therapy in those with personality disturbance within the flamboyant (cluster B) group. Thirty four patients were enrolled and 32 (18 MACT; 14 TAU) were seen at follow-up.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Not provided at time of registration.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
The main outcome measures will be the time of the next parasuicide act (using Linehan's definition of this, which is more minor than an actual suicide attempt). Our expectation is that our experimental treatment will extend this from a mean of three weeks to a mean of three months and this will require a sample size of 30 in each treatment group.	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
1. Time to first suicidal act 2. Rate of suicidal acts 3. Change in anxiety and depressive symptoms	—

Countries

United Kingdom

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026