Adolescent - Emotional Problem, Body Representation, Borderline Personality Disorder, Personality Disorders in Adolescence
Conditions
Brief summary
Representations of the inner body in adolescence: developmental characteristics and specificities in borderline personality disorders.
Detailed description
The aim of this exploratory study is to describe the representations of the inside of the body of adolescents with borderline personality disorder, and adolescent without borderline personality disorder. During an interview with a psychomotor specialist, participants will undergo tests, questionnaires and Internal body drawing test
Interventions
BEHAVIORALDrawing of the inside of the body, interviews and questionnaires.
Use of various validated and non-validated tools to identify certain common characteristics, as well as more specific weaknesses, in the representations of the inside of the body of adolescents with no pathology, and adolescents with borderline personality disorder.
Sponsors
Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal Creteil
Study design
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Intervention model description
Prospective, exploratory, descriptive and comparative study with cohorts. Qualitative study with a quantitative component.
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
15 Years to 19 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Non-clinical cohort : 1. Adolescents aged 15 to 19 2. High school students (seconde to terminale) 3. Having signed a consent form to participate in the research, as well as their legal representative 4. Affiliated to a social security regime * Clinical cohort : 1. Adolescents aged 15 to 19 2. With a high school level (3rd year completed, transition to second year pronounced), whether enrolled or not. 3. Having signed a consent form to participate in the research and their legal representative. 4. Currently under psychiatric or pediatric care for psychiatric reasons. 5. Diagnosed or suspected of having a borderline personality disorder, 6. Affiliated to a social security regime
Exclusion criteria
Non-clinical cohort 1. Serious somatic pathology under treatment (e.g. cancer; recent or planned operations...) 2. Recognized sensory or neurological disability. 3. Known, diagnosed psychiatric pathologies (TCA, schizophrenia, etc.). 4. Refusal to participate by adolescent or parental guardians. Clinical cohort : 1. Serious somatic pathology under treatment (e.g. cancer, recent or planned operations, etc.) 2. Recognized sensory or neurological disability. 3. Refusal to participate by adolescent or parental guardians. 4. Psychomotor assessment or follow-up by the researcher.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Level of drawing elaboration | From enrollment to 2 months after enrollment | Qualitative analyse of the drawing evaluated (complete and functional systems) - Minimum value: 0 (no elaboration / very simple drawing, incomplete or non-functional systems) Maximum value: 3 (high elaboration / detailed drawing with complete and functional systems) Interpretation: higher scores indicate a better outcome (higher level of drawing elaboration). |
| Type of organs represented | From enrollment to 2 months after enrollment | Type of organs represented on drawing of body' s interior |
| Type of systems represented | From enrollment to 2 months after enrollment | Type of systems represented on drawing of body' s interior |
| Number of organs represented | From enrollment to 2 months after enrollment | Completeness of drawing of the inside of the body |
| Number of systems represented | From enrollment to 2 months after enrollment | Completeness of drawing of the inside of the body + captions |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Scores obtained from questionnaires: Body Image Questionnaire_Body satisfaction | From enrollment to 2 months after enrollment | Demonstrate alterations in various dimensions in borderline adolescents |
| Frequency of responses to questions about drawing the inside of the body | From enrollment to 2 months after enrollment | Gather participants' opinions on the proposed inner-body drawing test |
| Type of symbolic representations emerging through the interview | From enrollment to 2 months after enrollment | Evaluate symbolic representations of the body through language. |
| Frequency of responses to additional questions about the body's interior | From enrollment to 2 months after enrollment | Evaluate participants' level of preoccupation with and experience of the inner body. |
| Scores obtained from questionnaires: Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20)_Emotional awareness (degree of alexithymia) | From enrollment to 2 months after enrollment | Demonstrate alterations in various dimensions in borderline adolescents |
| Questionnaire scores by age | From enrollment to 2 months after enrollment | To explore differences attributable to the developmental aspect of representations of the body's interior: 30 control high school students (RICA)/200 young adult students and adult students over 25 (results obtained in a preliminary study). |
| Symbolic elements added to drawing | From enrollment to 2 months after enrollment | Describe "non-anatomical" themes added to the drawing |
| Type of anatomical errors in the drawing | From enrollment to 2 months after enrollment | Describe anatomical errors in the drawing |
| Scores obtained from questionnaires: Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness):Interoceptive awareness, | From enrollment to 2 months after enrollment | Demonstrate alterations in various dimensions in borderline adolescents |
| Scores obtained from questionnaires: Postural Awareness Scale_Proprioceptive awareness, | From enrollment to 2 months after enrollment | Demonstrate alterations in various dimensions in borderline adolescents |
Outcome results
None listed