Effectiveness and Security Testing of a Mobile App (B·RIGHT) for Emotional Crisis in Borderline Personality Disorder

Consorci Sanitari del Maresme

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Borderline Personality Disorder

Treatments: Device: Mobile app; Behavioral: Treatment as usual (schema therapy)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04211753

CEIC 32/16

Details and patient eligibility

About

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)

Enrollment: 80 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

Treatment as usual plus mobile app

Experimental group

Description:

Those who will receive naturalistic treatment in outpatient setting and also the mobile app

Treatment:

Behavioral: Treatment as usual (schema therapy)

Device: Mobile app

Treatment as usual

Active Comparator group

Description:

Those who will receive naturalistic treatment in outpatient setting but not the mobile app

Treatment:

Behavioral: Treatment as usual (schema therapy)