Plain English Summary
Background and study aims
Patients with long-lasting psychological problems quite often have pitfalls/ life traps which they find hard to change and which interfere with their daily functioning. For example patients have the idea that they are worthless and avoid certain tasks or people as they have the idea that they will fail or that people are not interested in them. Schematherapy is a psychotherapy which helps people break through these negative life patterns and enables them to respond in a more healthy way. This study looked into patient files to explore whether patients who followed an intensive schematherapy programme experienced a reduction in their pitfalls and psychological problems.
Who can participate?
Adult patients with personality problems and/ or long-lasting Axis-I disorders, who have followed an inday schematherapy program at the mental health care hospital GGZ Delfland in Delft in the period of 2006-2008
What does the study involve?
Patients’ files are studied to find out to what extent patients who had followed this program had a reduced psychological symptom level at the end of the 9-month treatment program.
What are the possible benefits and risks of participating?
Since only patient files were studied and no additional interventions were done, there were no additional benefits or risks for patients.
Where is the study run from?
GGZ Delfland (Netherlands)
When is the study starting and how long is it expected to run for?
July 2006 to July 2008
Who is funding the study?
GGZ Delfland (Netherlands)
Who is the main contact?
J. Broersen
Trial website
Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
indayST
Study information
Scientific title
An open label trial of an inday schematherapy for patients with personality problems
Acronym
Study hypothesis
Patients in treatment of the inday schematherapy will show improvements on psychological symptoms and maladaptive schemas and modes.
Ethics approval
Since this study involved going through patients files of patients who have been treated with an inday schematherapy and patients did not have to do anything extra for this study under the Dutch law no ethical approval from an ethical committee has to be asked for
Study design
Observational longitudinal case-control study
Primary study design
Observational
Secondary study design
Case-control study
Trial setting
Hospitals
Trial type
Treatment
Patient information sheet
Not available in web format, please use the contact details to request a patient information sheet
Condition
Personality problems
Intervention
In this study the patient files were studied of 38 adult male/female patients with personality problems and/or long-lasting Axis-I disorders, who have followed an inday schematherapy program at the mental health care hospital GGZ Delfland in Delft in the period of 2006-2008. It was looked for to what extent patients who had followed this program had a reduced psychological symptom level at the end of this treatment program which had a duration of 9 months.
Intervention type
Behavioural
Phase
Drug names
Primary outcome measures
Severity of psychological problems, measured using Brief Symptom inventory (BSI) before the start of the inday treatment, after 3 months during treatment and 7 months after the second measurement
Secondary outcome measures
Measured before the start of the inday treatment, after 3 months during treatment and 7 months after the second measurement:
1. Severity of personality problems, measured using the Personality Disorder Questionnaire (PDQ)
2. Young Schema Questionnaire (YSQ) measures 16 schemas as defined by Jeffrey Young
3. Schema Mode Inventory (SMI) measures 14 modes as defined by Jeffrey Young
Overall trial start date
01/07/2006
Overall trial end date
31/07/2008
Reason abandoned
Eligibility
Participant inclusion criteria
1. Personality problems or long-lasting Axis-I disorders
2. Being able to speak and read the Dutch language
3. Willing to participate in a group psychotherapy
Participant type
Patient
Age group
Adult
Gender
Both
Target number of participants
40
Participant exclusion criteria
Having schizophrenia or being in such a crisis that submission to a psychiatric hospital was the first choice of intervention
Recruitment start date
03/07/2006
Recruitment end date
01/10/2007
Locations
Countries of recruitment
Netherlands
Trial participating centre
GGZ Delfland
2612 GA
Funders
Funder type
Hospital/treatment centre
Funder name
GGZ Delfland
Alternative name(s)
Funding Body Type
Funding Body Subtype
Location
Results and Publications
Publication and dissemination plan
It is the intention to publish an article in an English scientific psychology journal
IPD sharing statement
The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are/will be available upon request from J. Broersen. For privacy reasons only the outcomes of the questionnaires (BSI, PDQ, YSQ, SMI) will be shared and no other information. It will only be shared with researchers with a PhD and only after they have clearly and plainly stated for what reasons they want to have access to the data, how they will use the data and only when they state that they inform the contact person at any time about the process of the use of the data and allow the contact person to block further use of the data in any form at any time.
Intention to publish date
01/10/2020
Participant level data
Available on request
Results - basic reporting
Publication summary