Effectiveness of PTSD-treatment Compared to Integrated PTSD-PD-treatment in Adult Patients With Comorbid PTSD and BPD (PROSPER-B)

September 21, 2020 updated by: Arkin

Prediction and Outcome Study in PTSD and (Borderline) Personality Disorders

The goal of PROSPER-B is to study effectiveness of EMDR compared to integrated DBT-EMDR in treatment-seeking, adult patients with comorbid PTSD and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).

Study Overview

Status

Recruiting

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is highly comorbid with personality disorders (PD), mainly borderline (BPD) and cluster C personality disorders (CPD). It is not clear yet what treatment is most effective for those who suffer both PTSD and PD. There is growing preference in clinicians for evidence-based PTSD treatments, such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) or Imagination and Rescripting (ImRs), because these treatments are relative short, and there is some evidence that comorbid PD symptoms might resolve as well. However, at least 30-44% PTSD patients do not sufficiently respond to PTSD treatments or are excluded because of suicidality or self-harm. PD treatments are more intensive than PTSD treatments, e.g. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Schema-Focused Therapy (SFT) . There is some evidence that integrated PTSD-PD treatment is twice as effective than PD treatment alone, but integrated PTSD-PD treatment is not yet directly compared to PTSD treatment alone. This study will address this knowledge gap, including secondary outcome measures on functioning, quality of life and cost-effectiveness.

For patients with comorbid PTSD and BPD, EMDR-only will be compared to integrated EMDR-DGT (PROSPER-B).

Psychological (cognitive, affective, and relational) and neurobiological candidate predictors and mediators of treatment outcome will be investigated through a machine-learning paradigm, in order to develop a clinically useful and individual prediction instrument of treatment outcome. Example predictors and mediators are educational level , working memory, hyper- and hypo-arousal , therapeutic alliance and social support, resting state fMRI, an emotional face task fMRI , cortisol levels from hair samples and (epi)genetic markers. For the neurobiological prediction, a subgroup of patients will undergo MRI scans, as will healthy controls as control subjects.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Anticipated)

126

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Contact

Study Contact Backup

Study Locations

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years to 65 years (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Diagnosed with PTSD (309.81), and
  • Diagnosed with a borderline personality disorder (301.83) or at least 4 BPD symptoms

To be eligible for the study, both patients and healthy controls (for the MRI scans) have to:

  • Be aged between 18 and 65 years
  • Give written informed consent
  • Speak / understand Dutch sufficiently

Exclusion criteria:

  • Current psychosis
  • Comorbidity interfering with treatment or randomisation (severe outward aggression, antisocial PD, treatment interfering addiction or eating disorders, somatic problems)
  • Primary diagnosis of paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, narcissistic, histrionic or antisocial PD
  • Mental retardation

Additional exclusion criteria for the MRI substudy are:

  • Pregnancy
  • Metal implants (such as pacemakers, etc.);
  • Somatic disorders interfering with brain functioning
  • Claustrophobia
  • High dose use of benzodiazepines

For the healthy controls, current psychiatric diagnosis is an additional exclusion criterion.

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: Double

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Active Comparator: PTSD-EMDR
PTSD treatment
Behavioral: EMDR
EMDR is a PTSD treatment that specifically addresses troubling memories of and the personal meaning of the traumatic event and consists of 12 to 18 sessions in a maximum of 6 months.
Experimental: Integrated DBT-EMDR
Integrated PTSD-PD-treatment
Behavioral: EMDR
EMDR is a PTSD treatment that specifically addresses troubling memories of and the personal meaning of the traumatic event and consists of 12 to 18 sessions in a maximum of 6 months.
Behavioral: DBT
DBT is a treatment for personality disorders (PD) focused on emotion regulation. It takes at least one group-session per week, and one individual coaching session every two weeks, for the duration of one year.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
CAPS-5 (Clinician Administered PTSD Scale)
Time Frame: 12 months
The CAPS-5 is a structured diagnostic interview to assess the frequency and severity of DSM-5 PTSD symptoms. The interview consists of 30 items, with higher scores indicating more severe symptomatology. CAPS-5 total symptom severity score is calculated by summing severity scores for the 20 DSM-5 PTSD symptoms. Similarly, CAPS-5 symptom cluster severity scores are calculated by summing the individual item severity scores for symptoms corresponding to a given DSM-5 cluster: Criterion B (items 1-5); Criterion C (items 6-7); Criterion D (items 8-14); and, Criterion E (items 15-20). A symptom cluster score may also be calculated for dissociation by summing items 19 and 20. To meet the criteria for PTSD diagnoses, at least one Criterion B and one Criterion C symptom, and two criterion D and E symptoms are required. Furthermore, Criterion F and G should be met.
12 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
PCL-5 (PTSD Checklist for DSM-5)
Time Frame: 12 months
The PCL-5 is a self-reported PTSD symptom scale. It consists of 20 items, scored 0 ("not at all") to 4 ("Extremely"). This is summed for total self-reported PTSD-severity, range 0 (no self-reported PTSD-symptoms in the past month) to 80 (extreme self-reported PTSD-symptoms in the past month). There are subscales for the different PTSD symptom clusters; cluster B (question 1-5), C (6-7); D (8-14) and E (15-20).
12 months
AUDIT (Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test)
Time Frame: 12 months
The AUDIT is a self-report questionnaire, with 10 items about alcohol use. These range from 0 ("Never") to 4 ("Daily"). The items are summed to create a total score from 0 (no alcohol risk) to 40 (maximum alcohol risk). The first three questions are about alcohol consumption, question 4-6 about alcohol dependency and question 7-10 about alcohol related problems.
12 months
SCID-5-S (Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-5 Disorders - syndrome disorders)
Time Frame: 12 months
The SCID-5-S is a clinician administered semistructured clinical interview to assess DSM-5 disorders (but not personality disorders). It consists of in total 14 modules, comparable to the DSM-5. Patients are assessed on the disorder, resulting in a score of absent/present for each disorder. In this study, we use the modules current depressive episode, current manic episode, current persistent depressive disorder, delusions & hallucinations, alcohol abuse, substance abuse, panic disorder, agoraphobia, specific phobia, generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, current anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder.
12 months
WHODAS 2.0 (World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule)
Time Frame: 12 months
WHODAS 2.0 is a 36-item self-report questionnaire assessing the daily function of activity and participation within the 30 previous days, including the following six domains: Cognition, Mobility, Self-care, Getting along, Life activities and Participation. The responses on each item range from no difficulty (1) to extreme difficulty (5). Responses to the six dimensions are weighted and summed to create a total score between 0 (no disability) and 100 (complete disability).
12 months
EQ-5D-5L (EuroQOL - 5 Dimensions - 5 Levels)
Time Frame: 12 months
The EQ-5D-5L measures health-related quality of life and consists of five dimensions: mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort and anxiety/depression. Each dimension has 5 levels: no problems, slight problems, moderate problems, severe problems and extreme problems. The answer to each item results in a 1-digit number that expresses the level selected for that dimension. The digits for the five dimensions can be combined into a 5-digit number that describes the patient's health state, with higher numbers indicating more severe problems.
12 months
Tic-P (Trimbos/iMTA questionnaire for costs associated with psychiatric illness)
Time Frame: 12 months
TiC-P is a self-report questionnaire assessing direct medical costs and productivity costs due to absence from work or reduced efficiency during work in patients with a mental disorder. The first part of the TiC-P includes 14 structured yes or no questions on the use of medical resources, each followed by a question on the volume of medical consumption. The second part includes five items on work absence, reduced efficiency at work and related productivity losses.
12 months
PAI-BOR (Personality Assessment Inventory- Borderline features scale)
Time Frame: 12 months
The Personality Assessment Inventory-Borderline Features (PAI-BOR) Scale is a self-report measure assessing the presence and severity of BPD. The BAI-BOR consists of four subscales of six items each, reflecting four main characteristics of BPD: affective instability, negative relationships, identity problems and self-harm. Each items is rated on a four-point scale, ranging from false (0) to very true (3). A total PAI-BOR score of 38 or more indicates the presence of significant BPD features, whereas a score of 60 or more indicates typical borderline personality functioning.
12 months
SCID-5-PD (Structured Interview for DSM-5 Personality Disorders)
Time Frame: 12 months
The SCID-5-PD is a semi-structured interview to assess the presence and severity of the DSM-5 personality disorders. Diagnoses are made either categorically (present or absent) or dimensionally (summing the ratings for each symptom, which are rated 0, 1 or 2).
12 months
Outcome Questionnaire -45 (OQ-45)
Time Frame: 12 months
The OQ-45 is a self-report questionnaire that measures general functioning and physical complaints in the past week. It consists of 45 items; 25 items on psychiatric symptoms and 20 on interpersonal, occupational and social functioning. These are rated from 0 ("Never") to 4 ("Almost always"). Some items need to be reversed in scoring. There are four subscales: Symptomatic Distress (25 items); Interpersonal Relationships (11 items) and Social Role (9 items). A higher score indicates worse functioning.
12 months
Beck depression inventory (BDI)
Time Frame: 12 months
The BDI is a 21-item self-report questionnaire assessing the severity of depression. Each item consists of four statements indicating different levels of severity of a particular symptom experienced over the past week, ranging from low (0) to high (3) severity. Scores for all 21 items are summed to yield a single depression, with a maximum depression score of 63.
12 months
NSSI (Non-suicidal Self-injury)
Time Frame: 12 months
The NSSI screener consists of 7 multiple-choice items assessing non-suicidal self-injury. In case of an affirmative responses to the item 'Have you ever done any of the following with the purpose of intentionally hurting yourself?' engagement in NSSI is determined.
12 months
STAS (State-Trait Anxiety Inventory)
Time Frame: 12 months
The State-Trait Anger Scale (STAS) is a 20-item questionnaire assessing state and trait anger. Both types of anger are assessed through 10 items, that are scored on a four-point rating scale, ranging from not at all (0) to very much so (4). The STAS has acceptable to strong internal consistency (Kroner & Reddon, 1992).
12 months
DERS (Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale)
Time Frame: 12 months
The Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) is a 41-item self-report measure to assess clinically relevant difficulties in emotion regulation. DERS items reflect difficulties within four dimensions of emotion regulation: awareness and understanding of emotions, acceptance of emotions, the ability to engage in goal-directed behaviour and to refrain from impulsive behaviour, and access to effective emotion regulation strategies. Items are scored on a five-point scale, ranging from almost never (1) to almost always (5). Although the Dutch version of DERS (DERS-NL) has not been validated yet, the original DERS showed high internal consistency, good test-retest reliability and adequate construct and predictive validity (Gratz & Roemer, 2004).
12 months

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Arkin

Collaborators

Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc
Ziekenhuis Amstelland
Meander Medisch Centrum
Sinai Centrum, Arkin, The Netherlands
Stichting Steunfonds Joodse Geestelijke Gezondheidszorg (SSF JGG)

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Kathleen Thomaes, MD/PhD, Sinai Center

Publications and helpful links

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Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

June 1, 2018

Primary Completion (Anticipated)

April 2, 2022

Study Completion (Anticipated)

April 2, 2023

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

January 24, 2019

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

February 5, 2019

First Posted (Actual)

February 7, 2019

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

September 23, 2020

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

September 21, 2020

Last Verified

September 1, 2020

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Keywords

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Other Study ID Numbers

  • PROSPER2018-B

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

Undecided

IPD Plan Description

There is no concrete plan for sharing yet, possibly neurobiological and (epi)genetic data will be shared in a later stage. Patients are asked to sign consent forms for future data sharing.

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

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