Using Smartphones for Selfmonitoring of Skill-use i Dialectical Behavior Therapy (mDIARY)
Borderline Personality Disorder, Emotional Instability, Skill, Coping
About this trial
This is an interventional health services research trial for Borderline Personality Disorder focused on measuring mhealth, self-monitoring, Outcome monitoring
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Must be admitted to DBT treatment at a psychiatric hospital treatment facility in Denmark
- Must meet the criteria for Emotionally unstable personality disorder
- Must be 18 yr.o.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Psychosis
- Schizophrenia
- Bipolar disorder
- IQ under 70
- Patients who do not have a working smartphone
- Demographic data on rejected patients will be collected
Sites / Locations
- Glostrup DAT team. Psykiatrisk Ambulatorium
- Haderslev DAT team
- Silkeborg DAT team, Psykiatriens Hus
- Lokalpsykiatrisk ambulatorium
- Vejle DAT- team, Psykiatrisk ambulatorium
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Active Comparator
App-Condition
Paperdiary-condition
In this condition the intervention is that participants enter their skills-use and mood on a smartphone. They can follow their progress on graphs on the smartphone, get reminders to train skills, get psychoeducation about what the different emotion regulation coping skills can do, and how to do the skills. therapists can watch patient progress online, and review skill use together with the patients while in psychotherapy. The intervention is using a smartphone as an adjunct to the treatment.
Patients are, weekly, given a paper diary sheet to fill out on a daily basis at home No prompting, no accumulative overview of progress. Patients are supposed to bring this paper to the weekly therapysession