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 volunteersQualifiers
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
Parallel
Treatments tested in this trial
Treatment as usual (schema therapy)
Behavioralweekly group psychotherapy and bimonthly individual psychotherapy
Mobile app
DeviceMedical device for crisis intervention
Treatment groups
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
Number of psychiatric.emergencies and hospitalizations
As reported by computerized clinical charts
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).
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