N/A
N=93
Preschooler Emotion Regulation in the Context of Maternal Borderline Personality Disorder
Borderline Personality Disorder · Emotional Problem
Bottom Line
View on ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT03060902 ↗Enrolled (actual)
93
Serious AEs
0.0%
Results posted
Jan 2024
Primary outcome: Primary: Maternal Emotion Dysregulation — 82.35; 91.8 score on a scale — p=.002
Study Design & Population
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- N/A
- Interventions
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills (Behavioral)
- Age
- Adult, Older Adult · 18+ yrs
- Sex
- Female
- Sponsor
- University of Oregon
- Primary completion
- May 2022
Outcome Measures
| Outcome | Result | p-value |
|---|---|---|
| PRIMARY Maternal Emotion Dysregulation |
82.35; 91.8 | .002 sig |
Summary
Offspring of mothers with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) are at serious risk for developing mental illness at every stage of their life, and yet little is known about how this risk is transmitted. This study will leverage Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills as an experimental intervention to determine if preschool emotion regulation develops more rapidly as a result of improvements in mothers' ability to regulate her own emotions. The knowledge from this study will identify a modifiable pathway by which maternal BPD places offspring at risk for later mental disorders and will quantify how much improvement in children's ability to regulate their emotions can be achieved by treating mothers alone.
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- Have a child who is 3 years old; have custody of child; endorse at least 3 symptom criteria of BPD in which one symptom must be affective instability and uncontrollable anger; have a verbal IQ of at least 70
Exclusion Criteria
- Does not have custody of child; child has known developmental disabilities; mother is psychotic; mother has suicidal ideation + an active plan; mother has low verbal IQ
Data sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT03060902). Outcome figures and adverse-event rates are extracted automatically from the registry's posted results and are provided for clinician reference, not as a substitute for the primary publication.