Borderline Personality Disorder
Conditions
Keywords
Borderline personality disorder, Mobile app, Crisis intervention, Effectiveness, Security
Brief summary
To assess the effectiveness and security of a mobile App (beta version) for self-managing emotional crisis in a pragmatic randomized controlled trial with 80 patients with borderline personality disorder (40 patients with treatment as usual, TAU) versus 40 patients with TAU plus the mobile App)
Interventions
weekly group psychotherapy and bimonthly individual psychotherapy
Medical device for crisis intervention
Sponsors
Study design
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
* DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition) of borderline personalidad disorder (BPD) * Aged 18-60 yeats old
Exclusion criteria
* Comorbidity with mental retardation * Comorbidity with psychotic disorder * Comorbidity with antisocial personality * Comorbidity with autism spectrum disorder
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of psychiatric.emergencies and hospitalizations | 9-month | As reported by computerized clinical charts |
| smartphone addiction | 9-month | Severity of smartphone addiction as measured by the Spanish version of the Smartphone Addiction Scale (SAS) (range: 10-60; the higher the score, the more severe the smartphone addiction severity). |
Countries
Spain