Dialectical Behavior Therapy vs Enhanced Usual Care for Suicidal and Self-harming Adolescents. 10 Year Follow-up

Launched by OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL · Mar 4, 2020

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ClinConnect Summary

Suicide attempts and non-suicidal self-harm, highly prevalent in adolescents, are behaviours strongly associated with severe emotion dysregulation, mental health problems and increased suicide risk. The original study, on which the present study is building, used a randomized controlled design, with a stratified block randomization procedure, and blinded pre-treatment, post-treatment and follow-up evaluations comparing 19weeks of DBT-A with EUC of equal length.

Of special interest to this follow-up study is to gain more knowledge on their capacity to regulate emotions, since failures in em...

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Eligibility criteria

• The inclusion criteria for the initial study were:
• • 1. History of repeated self-harm (last episode within last 4 months) and
• • 2. Age between 12 and 18 years and
• • 3. Satisfied at least 2 criteria of DSM-IV Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) (as measured by the SCIDII) (in addition to the self-destructive criterion) - alternatively at least 1 criterion of DSM-IV BPD plus at least 2 threshold level criteria and
• • 4. Written informed consent from patient and parent(s) to participate in the study and
• • 5. Patient fluently Norwegian speaking
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • 1. Psychotic disorders or
• • 2. Anorexia nervosa or
• • 3. Severe substance dependence disorders or
• • 4. Mental retardation (IQ less than 70) or
• • 5. Asperger syndrome/autism -