Effectiveness of Group Based Schema Therapy in the Treatment of Personality Disorders

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Status: Completed

Conditions: Avoidant Personality Disorder; Personality Disorder, Borderline

Treatments: Behavioral: standard care; Behavioral: Schema Therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00247234

ursula.falkmer+AEA-stolav.no

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study intends to compare the effectiveness of schema therapy with standard psychiatric outpatient care for patients with borderline or avoidant personality disorder.

Enrollment: 90 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 50 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Avoidant or Borderline personality disorders

Exclusion criteria

• Do not speak Scandinavian languages
• Antisocial personality disorder
• Narcissistic personality disorder
• Affective bipolar disorder I
• Schizophrenia
• Mental impairment/organic brain disorder
• Substance dependence
• Planned pregnancy
• Serious somatic illness
• Anorexia Nervosa

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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90 participants in 2 patient groups

schema therapy

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Schema Therapy

standard care

Active Comparator group

Description:

standard psychiatric out-patient care

Treatment:

Behavioral: standard care