Status:

UNKNOWN

Development and Initial Testing of a Couple-Based Intervention to Optimize Suicide and Self-Injury Treatment: COMPASS (Connecting, Overcoming, and Moving Past Suicide and Self-Injury)

Lead Sponsor:

York University

Collaborating Sponsors:

Toronto Metropolitan University

Conditions:

Self-injurious Thoughts and Behaviours

Borderline Personality Disorder

Eligibility:

All Genders

18-70 years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Self-injurious thoughts and behaviors (SITBs), including suicide, thinking about suicide, and self-injury without intent to die, are major public health crises, with variably effective, and sometimes ...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Patients have either engaged in 2+ suicidal or non-suicidal self-injurious behaviors in the past two weeks (i.e., chronic and recent SITBs, consistent with previous research evaluating non-suicidal self-injury (Kranzler et al., 2018)), or have severe suicidal ideation as indicated by a score ≥15 on the Beck Scale for Suicidal Ideation (Beck, 1991)
  • Patients also meet diagnostic criteria for BPD
  • Patients are between the ages of 18 and 70 years-old
  • Patients have a romantic partner who is between the ages of 18 and 70 years-old
  • Patient's romantic partner is willing to participate in the study with them

Exclusion

  • Past-year severe intimate aggression in their relationship such that participants who endorse any severe physical and/or sexual assault behaviors in the past year will be excluded from the study (Monson et al., 2012; Abramowitz et al., 2013), as assessed by the Revised Conflict Tactics Scale, Severe Items Subscale (CTS-2; Straus, Hamby, Boney-McCoy, \& Sugarman, 1996)
  • Either partner has a severe substance use disorder that would interfere with the capacity to attend and participate in this study
  • Either partner has clinically significant psychotic symptoms or bipolar I disorder (e.g., McMain et al., 2018; McMain et al., 2009)
  • Either partner has a major cognitive or intellectual impairment that would prevent the individual's ability to attend intervention and participate in the research study
  • Either partner has illiteracy in English language
  • Either partner is unable or unwilling to download and use a mobile application on their smart phone to complete daily Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) measures
  • If partners meet inclusion criterion #1, or #2, or meet the self-harm/suicidal behaviour diagnostic criterion for BPD.
  • If either partner of the couple is unwilling to have assessments and sessions audio or videorecorded
  • If either partner is currently not residing in Ontario

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

January 18 2021

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

January 1 2024

Estimated Enrollment :

42 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT04737252

Start Date

January 18 2021

End Date

January 1 2024

Last Update

November 7 2023

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York University

Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3