ERGT for Women Engaging in NSSI - an Effectiveness Study

Karolinska Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: Borderline Personality Disorder; Non-suicidal Self-injury (NSSI)

Treatments: Behavioral: Emotion Regulation Group Therapy (ERGT).

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01986257

DNR 2013/1321-31/3

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary aim is to investigate the effectiveness of Emotion Regulation Group Therapy (ERGT) for women who self-harm in ordinary psychiatric outpatient health care.

Enrollment: 97 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• NSSI a minimum of three times in the last six months
• Meets at least three criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder according to DSM-IV-TR
• Contact with an other individual therapist, psychiatrist, "case manager" or equal

Exclusion criteria

• Insertion/withdrawal of psychopharmacological substances within two months prior to the treatment
• Other acute primary axis I diagnosis (e.g. anorexia nervosa) that demand treatment in first hand
• Bipolar disorder I or primary psychosis
• Current substance dependence (the last month)
• Current life circumstances that would hinder the treatment (i.e. ongoing domestic abuse)
• Insufficient Swedish language skills
• Cocurrent treatment with Mentalization based therapy (MBT) or Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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97 participants in 1 patient group

Emotion Regulation Group Therapy (ERGT).

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Emotion Regulation Group Therapy (ERGT).