Adapted Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Adolescents With Deliberate Self-Harm: A Pre-post Observational Study

University of Ottawa

Status: Completed

Conditions: Deliberate Self Harm; Borderline Personality Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: A-DBT-A

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02988037

G6302346

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators conducted a pre-post naturalistic study regarding changes observed associated with a 15-week course of an adapted form of dialectical behaviour therapy for adolescents. We measured frequency of self-harm prior to treatment and after treatment using the Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors Interview. We also measured changes using the Suicide Ideation Questionnaire, Life Problems Inventory, Resiliency Scale for Children and Adolescents.

Enrollment: 33 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 15 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• features of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and recent history of self-injurious thoughts or behaviours.

  1. meeting criteria for BPD or for subsyndromal variants of BPD, and (2) self-injurious thoughts and behaviours defined as: (a) a score > 30 on the Suicidal Ideation Questionnaire (SIQ) OR (b) Deliberate Self-harm in the 4 months prior to treatment

Exclusion criteria

• severe substance use (where residential treatment would be indicated), florid psychosis and developmental delay

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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33 participants in 1 patient group

A-DBT-A

Experimental group

Description:

Began Adapted Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for Adolescents

Treatment:

Behavioral: A-DBT-A