A Smartphone Application of "Family Connections" to Relatives of People With Borderline Personality Disorder.
17 febbraio 2022 aggiornato da: Universitat Jaume I
A Smartphone Application of "Family Connections" to Increase the Use of Skills and the Improving of Psychological Symptoms in Relatives of People With Borderline Personality Disorder: a Protocol Study for a Randomized Controlled Trial.
The aims of our study are the following: (a) testing the effectiveness of a combined intervention: "Family Connections" program with a smartphone app versus the same intervention supported by a paper-based manual, (b) studying the feasibility and acceptance of both conditions and (c) evaluating the perceptions and opinions of families about both interventions.
Panoramica dello studio
Stato
Non ancora reclutamento
Condizioni
Intervento / Trattamento
Descrizione dettagliata
Family members of patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) often experience high levels of suffering, anxiety, stress, burden and helplessness.
The treatment program with the most empirical support is "Family Connections".
It is one of the first programs specifically designed to help relatives of patients with BPD.
The program is an adaptation of multiple strategies of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy.
The results of these studies and their subsequent replications showed an improvement in family attitudes and perceived burden.
Two of the technologies with very promising developments are Ecological Momentary Assessment and Ecological Momentary Intervention, that can act on each other.
A large number of smartphone apps for people with psychological problems focus on the provision of instructions, adaptive self-help strategies, alarms, electronic diaries or emotional state ratings.
The Family Connections app proposed in this article consists of a smartphone app built using EMA and EMI technologies.The aims of our study are the following: (a) testing the effectiveness of a combined intervention: "Family Connections" program with a smartphone app versus the same intervention supported by a paper-based manual, (b) studying the feasibility and acceptance of both conditions and (c) evaluating the perceptions and opinions of families about both interventions.
Tipo di studio
Interventistico
Iscrizione (Anticipato)
116
Fase
- Non applicabile
Contatti e Sedi
Questa sezione fornisce i recapiti di coloro che conducono lo studio e informazioni su dove viene condotto lo studio.
Contatto studio
- Nome: Verónica Guillén Botella, Dr
- Numero di telefono: 4386 963864386
- Email: vguillenbotella@gmail.com
Backup dei contatti dello studio
- Nome: Azucena García Palacios, Dr
- Numero di telefono: 7640 964387640
- Email: azucena@uji.es
Luoghi di studio
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Castellón
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Castellón De La Plana, Castellón, Spagna, 12071
- Universitat Jaume I
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Contatto:
- Azucena García Palacios, Dr
- Numero di telefono: 7640 964387640
- Email: azucena@uji.es
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Investigatore principale:
- Isabel Fernández Felipe, PhD Student
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Contatto:
- Verónica Guillén Botella, Dr
- Numero di telefono: 4386 964864386
- Email: fernandi@uji.es
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Investigatore principale:
- Diana Castilla López, Dr
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Investigatore principale:
- Mariví Navarro Haro, Dr
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Criteri di partecipazione
I ricercatori cercano persone che corrispondano a una certa descrizione, chiamata criteri di ammissibilità. Alcuni esempi di questi criteri sono le condizioni generali di salute di una persona o trattamenti precedenti.
Criteri di ammissibilità
Età idonea allo studio
18 anni e precedenti (Adulto, Adulto più anziano)
Accetta volontari sani
Sì
Sessi ammissibili allo studio
Tutto
Descrizione
Inclusion Criteria:
- Having a family member diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.
- Being 18 years of age or older.
- Knowing and understanding the Spanish language.
- Having a smartphone with Internet connection.
- Completing the informed consent.
Piano di studio
Questa sezione fornisce i dettagli del piano di studio, compreso il modo in cui lo studio è progettato e ciò che lo studio sta misurando.
Come è strutturato lo studio?
Dettagli di progettazione
- Scopo principale: Trattamento
- Assegnazione: Randomizzato
- Modello interventistico: Assegnazione parallela
- Mascheramento: Doppio
Armi e interventi
Gruppo di partecipanti / Arm |
Intervento / Trattamento |
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Sperimentale: Smartphone Application
Family members in the experimental group of this study will receive an ecological momentary intervention (EMI) derived from an ecological momentary assessment (EMA) via the Family Connections smartphone app.
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Family members in the experimental group of this study will receive an ecological momentary intervention (EMI) derived from an ecological momentary assessment (EMA) via the Family Connections smartphone app.
Family members in this condition will receive the manual of Family Connections which contains all the information on the program sessions conducted and the skills training strategies in writing.
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Comparatore attivo: Treatment As Usual
Family members in this condition will receive the manual of Family Connections which contains all the information on the program sessions conducted and the skills training strategies in writing.
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Family members in the experimental group of this study will receive an ecological momentary intervention (EMI) derived from an ecological momentary assessment (EMA) via the Family Connections smartphone app.
Family members in this condition will receive the manual of Family Connections which contains all the information on the program sessions conducted and the skills training strategies in writing.
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Cosa sta misurando lo studio?
Misure di risultato primarie
Misura del risultato |
Misura Descrizione |
Lasso di tempo |
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Burden Assessment Scale (BAS; Horwitz & Reinhard, 1992)
Lasso di tempo: Changes will be assessed from pre-treatment to immediately after the intervention (3 months)
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Burden Assessment Scale (BAS) consists of 19 items and it assess the caregivers' objective and subjective burden within the past six months.
Items are rated on a 4-point Likert scale ranging from 1(nothing) to 4 (a lot), and higher values indicate stronger burden.
Internal reliability of the scale ranged from .89 to .91 and it shows adequated validity (Reinhard, Gubman, Horwitz & Minsky, 1994).
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Changes will be assessed from pre-treatment to immediately after the intervention (3 months)
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Misure di risultato secondarie
Misura del risultato |
Misura Descrizione |
Lasso di tempo |
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Depression, Anxiety and Stress (DASS-21; Lovibond & Lovibond, 1995)
Lasso di tempo: Changes will be assessed from pre-treatment to immediately after the intervention (3 months)
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Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS) have 42 items about negative emotional symptoms (Lovibond & Lovibond, 1995).
Lovibond & Lovinbod (1995) proposed that a part of these subscales for can become part of a short version creating a new questionnaire of 21 items.
Items are rated on a 4-point Likert scale ranging from 0 (It did not happen to me) to 3 (It happened to me a lot or most of the time), and higher scores indicate worse symptoms of depression, anxiety or stress.
DASS-21 showed fantastic factor structures.
Regarding to the internal consistency, Cronbach's alphas were excellent for the DASS-21 subscales: Depression (α = .94),
Anxiety (α = .87)
and Stress (α = .91)
(Antony, Bieling, Cox, Enns & Swinson, 1998).
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Changes will be assessed from pre-treatment to immediately after the intervention (3 months)
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Family Empowerment (FES; Koren, DeChillo & Friesen, 1992)
Lasso di tempo: Changes will be assessed from pre-treatment to immediately after the intervention (3 months)
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Family Empowerment Scale (FES) consists of 34 items divided in three subscales: family, service system, and involvement in community that is refered to three ways of empowerment, attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors (Koren, DeChillo & Friesen, 1992).
Items are rated on a scale of 1 (completely false) to 5 (totally true), and higher scores indicate a greater sense of empowerment.
The psychometric properties are the following: regarding to the internal consistency of FES subscores, the coefficients ranged from .87 to .88 and validity and reliability are adequated (Koren, DeChillo & Friesen, 1992).
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Changes will be assessed from pre-treatment to immediately after the intervention (3 months)
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Resilience (CD-RISC; Connor & Davidson, 2003)
Lasso di tempo: Changes will be assessed from pre-treatment to immediately after the intervention (3 months)
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Connor-Davidson Resilience scale is a 25-item measure of resilience.
Items are rated on a 5-point Likert scale ranging from 0 (absolutely not) to 4 (almost always) and the punctuation is based on how the participant has felt over the last month.
Higher scores means greater resilience (Connor & Davidson, 2003).
The CD-RISC authors reported acceptable test-retest reliability (r = 0.87) and strong internal consistency (α = .89)
(Connor & Davidson, 2003).
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Changes will be assessed from pre-treatment to immediately after the intervention (3 months)
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Altre misure di risultato
Misura del risultato |
Misura Descrizione |
Lasso di tempo |
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System Usability Scale (SUS; Brooke, 2013).
Lasso di tempo: Changes will be assessed immediately after the intervention (3 months)
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It consists of 10 items measured with a Likert scale with five response options from Strongly agree to Strongly disagree.
It is reliable (coefficient alpha of .91)
and useful (Bangor, Kortum, & Miller, 2008).
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Changes will be assessed immediately after the intervention (3 months)
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Collaboratori e investigatori
Qui è dove troverai le persone e le organizzazioni coinvolte in questo studio.
Sponsor
Collaboratori
Investigatori
- Investigatore principale: Isabel Fernández Felipe, PhD Student, Universitat Jaume I
- Investigatore principale: Diana Castilla López, Dr, University of Valencia
- Investigatore principale: Mariví Navarro Haro, Dr, Universidad de Zaragoza
Pubblicazioni e link utili
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Pubblicazioni generali
- Hoffman PD, Fruzzetti AE, Buteau E, Neiditch ER, Penney D, Bruce ML, Hellman F, Struening E. Family connections: a program for relatives of persons with borderline personality disorder. Fam Process. 2005 Jun;44(2):217-25. doi: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2005.00055.x.
- Hoffman PD, Fruzzetti AE. Advances in interventions for families with a relative with a personality disorder diagnosis. Curr Psychiatry Rep. 2007 Feb;9(1):68-73. doi: 10.1007/s11920-007-0012-z.
- Flynn D, Kells M, Joyce M, Corcoran P, Herley S, Suarez C, Cotter P, Hurley J, Weihrauch M, Groeger J. Family Connections versus optimised treatment-as-usual for family members of individuals with borderline personality disorder: non-randomised controlled study. Borderline Personal Disord Emot Dysregul. 2017 Aug 30;4:18. doi: 10.1186/s40479-017-0069-1. eCollection 2017.
- Hoffman PD, Buteau E, Hooley JM, Fruzzetti AE, Bruce ML. Family members' knowledge about borderline personality disorder: correspondence with their levels of depression, burden, distress, and expressed emotion. Fam Process. 2003 Winter;42(4):469-78. doi: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2003.00469.x.
- Hoffman PD, Fruzzetti AE, Swenson CR. Dialectical behavior therapy--family skills training. Fam Process. 1999 Winter;38(4):399-414. doi: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1999.00399.x.
- Rajalin M, Wickholm-Pethrus L, Hursti T, Jokinen J. Dialectical behavior therapy-based skills training for family members of suicide attempters. Arch Suicide Res. 2009;13(3):257-63. doi: 10.1080/13811110903044401.
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Inizio studio (Anticipato)
1 settembre 2022
Completamento primario (Anticipato)
31 dicembre 2022
Completamento dello studio (Anticipato)
15 gennaio 2023
Date di iscrizione allo studio
Primo inviato
17 gennaio 2022
Primo inviato che soddisfa i criteri di controllo qualità
17 gennaio 2022
Primo Inserito (Effettivo)
31 gennaio 2022
Aggiornamenti dei record di studio
Ultimo aggiornamento pubblicato (Effettivo)
4 marzo 2022
Ultimo aggiornamento inviato che soddisfa i criteri QC
17 febbraio 2022
Ultimo verificato
1 febbraio 2022
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