Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Adolescents With Self-harm and Suicidal Behavior- an Open Trial

Suicidal Ideation Clinical Trial

Official title: Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Adolescents With Self-harm and Suicidal Behavior- an Open

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

The goal of this pre-post-follow-up study is to examine how well the treatment Dialectical behavior therapy for adolescents (DBT-A) with a duration of 20 weeks for adolescents with self-harm and suicidal behavior works in routine clinical practice. The main questions it aims to answer are:

• to investigate how well DBT-A works after treatment and at 3-month follow-up, measured by episodes of self-harm, suicide attempts, depressive symptoms and quality of life, drop-out from treatment and number of possible participants who decline DBT-A.

• to investigate how well DBT-A works at 12 months follow-up

• to investigate whether pre-treatment factors can predict who will benefit from treatment

Clinical Trial Description

Self-harm and suicidal ideation are prevalent among adolescents and associated with major mental health problems and adverse life events. Dialectical behavior therapy for adolescents (DBT-A) is an empirically supported treatment for self-harm and suicidal ideation in adolescents. However, knowledge is scarce on the effectiveness, long-term outcomes, acceptability, and dropout of DBT-A when implemented and delivered as part of routine clinical practice in the Norwegian national health care system. The main aim of this study is to examine the outcomes from DBT-A in terms of self-harm episodes, suicide attempts, and emergency hospital admission, in addition to acceptability and dropout, when DBT-A is delivered at the Department of Child and adolescent psychiatry (PBU), Haukeland University Hospital (HUS). The study is an uncontrolled pre-post study with one-year follow-up and includes three aims: to evaluate outcomes of DBT-A up to three months post-treatment, at one-year follow-up, and to describe predictors of outcome for adolescents receiving DBT-A. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Self-harm
• Self-Injurious Behavior
• Suicidal Ideation
• Suicide
• Suicide and Self-harm

• NCT number: NCT06315075
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Haukeland University Hospital
• Contact: Gro Janne H. Wergeland, MD, PhD
• Phone: +47 48176828
• Email: gneh@helse-bergen.no
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 15, 2024
• Completion date: December 31, 2029