Full Text View  
  Tabular View  
  Contacts and Locations  
  No Study Results Posted  
  Related Studies  
Effectiveness of a 24 Hour Phone Line on the Rate of Suicide Attempts in Borderline Patients
This study is not yet open for participant recruitment.
Verified by Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, October 2008
Sponsors and Collaborators: Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
Centre Hospitalier St Anne
Information provided by: Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00603421
  Purpose

This randomized multicentric clinical trial assesses the effectiveness of 24 hour phone line on the rate of suicide attempts and self-injurious behaviors in borderline patients.


Condition Intervention
Borderline Personality Disorder
Other: 24 hour phone line
Other: treatment as usual

MedlinePlus related topics: Personality Disorders Suicide
U.S. FDA Resources
Study Type: Interventional
Study Design: Health Services Research, Randomized, Single Blind (Investigator), Active Control, Parallel Assignment, Safety/Efficacy Study
Official Title: Effectiveness of a 24 Hour Phone Line on the Rate of Suicide Attempts in Borderline Patients

Further study details as provided by Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris:

Primary Outcome Measures:
  • Rate of suicide attempts [ Time Frame: Annual ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]

Secondary Outcome Measures:
  • rate of self injurious behaviors [ Time Frame: annual ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]

Estimated Enrollment: 600
Study Start Date: November 2008
Estimated Study Completion Date: December 2011
Estimated Primary Completion Date: November 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Arms Assigned Interventions
1: Experimental
Patient benefits from treatment as usual plus access to a crisis 24 hour phone line.
Other: 24 hour phone line
24 hour phone line is available as soon as the patient himself feels necessary. This phone line is supported by professionals of mental health, all specialised in borderline personality disorder
2: Active Comparator
Patient benefits from treatment as usual
Other: treatment as usual
Treatment as usual

Detailed Description:

Borderline personality disorder is very frequent among psychiatric populations, and chronic suicidality is a major problem in clinical practice with borderline patients. In a lot of countries, suicide prevention centers are available, but most of these centers are not supervised by professionals of mental health, and none is specifically oriented to the borderline population.

The main goal of this study is to assess the effectiveness of a 24 hour crisis phone line on the rate of suicide attempts in a clinical population of borderline patients (the effectiveness of this phone line access on the rate of self-injurious behaviours will also be studied).

In this multicentric controlled trial, 600 borderline patients (men or women, in or out-patients, between 18 and 40 years-old) are randomized in two arms :

  • one with treatment as usual
  • one with treatment as usual, PLUS one year of access to a 24 hour crisis phone line (with a team of psychiatrists specialized in borderline personality disorder).

All patients are assessed with standardized instruments (interviewers are blind to the patient's status), at entry (T1) and one year later (T2).

  Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:   18 Years to 40 Years
Genders Eligible for Study:   Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No
Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  • 18 to 40 years old
  • in or out-patient in one of the recruiting center
  • men or women
  • with a borderline personality disorder
  • written informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

  • inferior to 18 or superior to 40 years old
  • schizophrenia
  • severe somatic disorder
  • participation refusal
  • participation to another interventional study
  Contacts and Locations
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00603421

Contacts
Contact: Alexandra Pham-Scottez, MD 0033145658918 a.pham@ch-sainte-anne.fr
Contact: Julien - Daniel Guelfi, MD, PhD 0033145658572 jd.guelfi@ch-sainte-anne.fr

Locations
France
Hôpital St Anne
Paris, France, 75014
Hopital Cochin Centre de recherche Clinique Paris Centre
Paris, France, 75679
Sponsors and Collaborators
Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
Centre Hospitalier St Anne
Investigators
Principal Investigator: Alexandra Pham-Scottez, MD Centre Hospitalier Sainte Anne
  More Information

Responsible Party: Department Clinical Research of Developpement ( François BASSOMPIERRE )
Study ID Numbers: AOM 05062
Study First Received: January 16, 2008
Last Updated: October 24, 2008
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00603421  
Health Authority: France: Ministry of Health

Keywords provided by Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris:
borderline personality disorder
suicide
suicidality
suicide attempt
suicidal behavior
self-injurious behavior
self-harm behavior
suicide prevention center
telephone intervention

Study placed in the following topic categories:
Suicide, Attempted
Mental Disorders
Suicide
Borderline Personality Disorder
Behavioral Symptoms
Self-Injurious Behavior
Personality Disorders

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on January 14, 2009