"Family Connections": a Program for Relatives of People With Borderline Personality Disorder

Universitat Jaume I

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Relatives

Treatments: Behavioral: Family Connections; Behavioral: Treatment As Usual

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04160871

UJaumeI19-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to validate an intervention for relatives of people with borderline personality disorder in Spanish population in a randomized control trial.

Full description

Family members of patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) often experience high levels of suffering, anxiety, stress, burden and helplessness. The treatment program with the most empirical support is "Family Connections". It is one of the first programs specifically designed to help relatives of patients with BPD. The program is an adaptation of multiple strategies of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy. It consists of 12 sessions with an approximate duration of two hours each. The results of these studies and their subsequent replications showed an improvement in family attitudes and perceived burden. The investigators have translated and adapted the program so that it could be applied to the Spanish population. The aim of the present study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the adaptation of "Family connections" in Spanish population through a controlled clinical trial. The first hypothesis of the study is that "Family Connections" will be more effective (significant reduction in the primary outcome variables), compared with a Treatment As Usual (TAU), in the posttest time and in the follow-ups of 3 and 6 months. In addition, a second hypothesis is that "Family Connections" will be more efficient (fewer abandonments, better opinion on the part of the patients) than TAU.

Enrollment: 124 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Aged 18 years or older.
• Having a relative with DSM-5 diagnosis of Personality Disorder
• Understand spoken and written Spanish.
• Grant informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

• Diagnosis of severe mental disorder.
• Presence of medical illness that may interfere with psychological treatment.
• Suicide risk.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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124 participants in 2 patient groups

Family Connections

Experimental group

Description:

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Family Connections

Treatment As Usual

Active Comparator group

Description:

Control group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Treatment As Usual