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Feasibility, Acceptability, and Preliminary Effects of ISTDP for Personality Disorders in a Specialized Psychiatric Clinic

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Karolinska Institute

Status

Invitation-only

Conditions

Personality Disorder

Treatments

Behavioral: ISTDP

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06591754
2024-04361-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of a 25-week combined group and individual therapy program using Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) for patients diagnosed with personality disorders. The secondary objective is to investigate preliminary effects of the treatment in terms of reducing symtoms of depression, anxiety and emotion regulation difficulties.

Full description

The investigators vill investigate a 25-week treatment with ISTDP that consists of both weekly group- and individual therapy for patients diagnosed with personality disorder in a psychiatric clinic specialized on depression, anxiety and PTSD. The feasibility and acceptability and preliminary effects will be evaluated using a within-group design with repeated measures and qualitative interviews. Patients will be recruited from the clinic and the main inclusion criteria is that the patient have a personality disorder diagnosis.

Enrollment

34 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Personality disorder diagnosis (Clinical assessment using STIP-5) Speaks Swedish fluently

Exclusion criteria

Autism or intellectual disability Borderline, antisocial or narcissistic personality disorder diagnosis Need for interpreter Urgent social misery Psychotic disorder High suicidality

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

N/A

Interventional model

Single Group Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

34 participants in 1 patient group

ISTDP
Experimental group
Description:
ISTDP combined group- and individual therapy
Treatment:
Behavioral: ISTDP

Trial contacts and locations

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