Effectiveness and Security Testing of a Mobile App (B·RIGHT) for Emotional Crisis in Borderline Personality Disorder

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18-60
SponsorConsorci Sanitari del Maresme

About this trial

To assess the effectiveness and security of a mobile App (beta version) for self-managing emotional crisis in a pragmatic randomized controlled trial with 80 patients with borderline personality disorder (40 patients with treatment as usual, TAU) versus 40 patients with TAU plus the mobile App)

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition) of borderline personalidad disorder (BPD)

Aged 18-60 yeats old

Disqualifiers

Comorbidity with mental retardation

Comorbidity with psychotic disorder

Comorbidity with antisocial personality

Comorbidity with autism spectrum disorder

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Treatment as usual (schema therapy)

    Behavioral

    weekly group psychotherapy and bimonthly individual psychotherapy

  • Mobile app

    Device

    Medical device for crisis intervention

Treatment groups

80 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: Treatment as usual plus mobile appExperimental treatment 2 interventions
Group B: Treatment as usualActive comparator 1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

Number of psychiatric.emergencies and hospitalizations

As reported by computerized clinical charts

Time frame
9-month
2

smartphone addiction

Severity of smartphone addiction as measured by the Spanish version of the Smartphone Addiction Scale (SAS) (range: 10-60; the higher the score, the more severe the smartphone addiction severity).

Time frame
9-month

Secondary outcomes

Other outcomes

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