Families and Carers Training and Support Programme (FACTS) - for families of people with a Borderline Personality Disorder diagnosis

Families and Carers Training and Support Programme (FACTS) - for families of people with a Borderline Personality Disorder diagnosis - a randomised controlled trial

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ISRCTN

Registry ID

ISRCTN39303837

Enrollment

Registered

2015-01-14

Start date

2015-01-12

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2015-07-06

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Conditions

Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Mental and Behavioural Disorders Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

Interventions

Families of people with BPD will be randomised to the active intervention of 5 modules of a psycho-educational and skills programme or to waitlist control. All patients on waitlist control will be off

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Must have a family member, friend, partner, or be otherwise involved with someone who has a clinical diagnosis of BPD or emerging personality disorder.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Non-English speaking families 2. The family member with BPD has a history of schizoaffective disorder or schizophrenia 3. The family member with BPD has active psychosis 4. The family member with BPD has a severe substance addiction.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
The primary outcome objective will be to reduce family incidents and increase family empowerment. It is hypothesised that this will lead to less crisis service use such as hospitalisation, police, A&E by the identified family member with BPD. Thus there will be improvements in the extent to which the family is able to cope with incidents. Incidents are defined as an emotional, behavioural, relationship, or other problems as reported in a weekly incident diary which are related to symptoms of borderline personality disorder and lead to family distress. They include any event which is usually recurrent that creates an interpersonal problem between family members such as withdrawal and refusal to speak, aggressive outbursts (verbal or physical), threats of self harm, suicide attempts. Weekly incident diaries will be completed by participants prior to starting the course and throughout their involvement in the trial.	—

Measure

Time frame

The primary outcome objective will be to reduce family incidents and increase family empowerment. It is hypothesised that this will lead to less crisis service use such as hospitalisation, police, A&E by the identified family member with BPD. Thus there will be improvements in the extent to which the family is able to cope with incidents. Incidents are defined as an emotional, behavioural, relationship, or other problems as reported in a weekly incident diary which are related to symptoms of borderline personality disorder and lead to family distress. They include any event which is usually recurrent that creates an interpersonal problem between family members such as withdrawal and refusal to speak, aggressive outbursts (verbal or physical), threats of self harm, suicide attempts. Weekly incident diaries will be completed by participants prior to starting the course and throughout their involvement in the trial.

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Secondary

Measure	Time frame
The secondary objective will focus on the wellbeing of the family by: 1. Improving the well-being of the attendees; 2. Increasing their understanding of the condition; 3. Helping them support the family member to access and use appropriately available services; 4. Engendering greater empowerment These outcomes will be measured using a series of questionnaires before and after the intervention: 1. Beck Depression Inventory 2. Burden Assessment Scale 3. Family Empowerment Questionnaire 4. State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) 5. SCORE 15 6.The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS)	—

Measure

Time frame

The secondary objective will focus on the wellbeing of the family by: 1. Improving the well-being of the attendees; 2. Increasing their understanding of the condition; 3. Helping them support the family member to access and use appropriately available services; 4. Engendering greater empowerment These outcomes will be measured using a series of questionnaires before and after the intervention: 1. Beck Depression Inventory 2. Burden Assessment Scale 3. Family Empowerment Questionnaire 4. State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) 5. SCORE 15 6.The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS)

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Countries

United Kingdom

Contacts

Public ContactAlice Wickersham

facts@annafreud.org+44 (0)20 7443 2215

Outcome results

None listed

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