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
Active Locations (1)
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York University
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3