Stress & Social Cognition in Borderline Personality Disorder (SOKO-1)

Charité University Medicine Berlin

Status: Completed

Conditions: Borderline Personality Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: inclusion condition

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04504994

WI 3396/12-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators will examine whether perceived social exclusion provoke a reduction in prosocial behavior in BPD patients.

Full description

The investigators will examine whether perceived social exclusion provoke a reduction in prosocial behavior, such as empathy, in BPD patients and whether this "fight-or-flight" pattern is also seen in other relevant aspects of social behavior, such as sharing and punishment behavior. To induce social exclusion all participants will play cyberball, either the exclusion condition or the (over)inclusion condition before testing

Enrollment: 196 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

female patients with BPD and healthy control women, matched for age, body mass index, and education

Exclusion criteria

physical illness

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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196 participants in 4 patient groups

exclusion BPD

Experimental group

Description:

cyberball exclusion condition - BPD patients

Treatment:

Behavioral: inclusion condition

over-inclusion BPD

Experimental group

Description:

cyberball over-inclusion condition - BPD patients

Treatment:

Behavioral: inclusion condition

exclusion healthy controls

Experimental group

Description:

cyberball exclusion condition - healthy controls

Treatment:

Behavioral: inclusion condition

over-inclusion healthy controls

Experimental group

Description:

cyberball over-inclusion condition - healthy controls

Treatment:

Behavioral: inclusion condition