Mindfulness for Intense Emotions: A Feasibility Trial (MindIE)

Canterbury Christ Church University

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Borderline Personality Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: Mindfulness-based intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02849431

16/EM/0100

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study explores the feasibility of a mindfulness-based intervention for people with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder.

Full description

This is an uncontrolled feasibility trial of an eight-week mindfulness-based intervention for people with a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder. A battery of measures will be administered at baseline, in a time window of six to zero weeks prior to the start of the intervention. Outcome measures will be repeated in the two weeks after the end of the eight-week intervention, along with a qualitative interview.

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Are on the caseload of a United Kingdom National Health Service Assessment and Treatment Service in the recruitment area and have had contact with that service in the past three months
• Have received the diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder from a suitably qualified health care professional, and continue to meet criteria for this diagnosis according to the SCID-II (Structured Clinical Interview for DSM Disorders Version II) at their screening assessment
• Have sufficient English language speaking and comprehension abilities to access group discussions and hand-out materials
• Have not previously engaged in a mindfulness-based intervention. As in other similar trials, a minimum dose has been operationally defined as having undertaken 50% or more of a mindfulness-based intervention delivered face-to-face by a suitably qualified health care professional
• Are not currently receiving, nor have plans to receive any other form of psychological therapy during the course of the study

Exclusion criteria

• Have psychosis
• Misuse alcohol or drug to a level that requiring detox
• Have a intellectual disability
• Present a high level of risk requiring inpatient management at the time of their screening assessment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

---

0 participants in 1 patient group

Mindfulness-based intervention

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindfulness-based intervention