The Personal Concerns Inventory Study (PCI)

NCT01132976 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: PB-PG-1207-15046
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 76
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Services for people with personality disorders are challenged by how to engage clients in therapy. High non-completion rates have major cost-efficiency implications, but more worrying is that drop-out may be associated with negative outcomes for clients. The investigators have developed a motivational intervention that helps people focus on their valued and attainable life goals and consider how therapy could help with goal attainment.One way to improve retention in treatment is to deliver pre-therapy motivational preparation interviews. The primary aim of our proposed research is to gather information to determine whether a randomised controlled trial of a goal-based motivational intervention is feasible in a community personality disorder treatment service.

Conditions

Personality Disorders

Keywords

Personality disorders; Personal Concerns Inventory; Non completion

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (3)

• Recruitment

  A randomised controlled trial will be considered feasible if the recruitment rate to the project is 54% of all referrals (95% CI 54-64).

  18 months

• Acceptability to patients

  80% of clients find the intervention acceptable in terms of its practicability and usefulness (95% CI 80-91)

  18 months

• Acceptability to staff

  80% therapists report finding the intervention helpful (95% CI 80-100)

  18 months

Secondary Outcomes (3)

• The Treatment Engagement Rating Scale (TER; Drieschner & Boomsma, 2008)

  20 weeks after intervention

• Client Service Receipt Inventory

  20 weeks after intervention

• Treatment attendance

  20 weeks after intervention

Study Arms (2)

Goal-based motivational interview

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Participants randomised to this group will receive the goal based motivational interview - Personal Concerns Inventory (PCI) in addition to treatment as usual.

Behavioral: Personal Concerns Inventory

Treatment as usual

OTHER

Participants randomly allocated to this group will receive treatment as usual only, ie no specific motivational intervention.

Behavioral: Treatment as usual

Interventions

Personal Concerns Inventory BEHAVIORAL

This is a pre-treatment, goal-based motivational interview which helps to patients identify their life goals, and goal-value. The interview will last approximately 2 hours and will be carried out face to face with a therapist across one or two sessions.

Goal-based motivational interview

Treatment as usual BEHAVIORAL

No specific motivational interview

Treatment as usual

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Referred to the Nottinghamshire Personality Disorder and Development Network
• Opted to attend group sessions within the Nottinghamshire Personality Disorder and Development Network
• Aged 18 or over.
• Proficiency in spoken English
• Capacity to provide valid informed consent

You may not qualify if:

• Currently enrolled in another trial

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust: lead
• University of Nottingham: collaborator
• Bangor University: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Nottinghamshire Personality Disorder & Development Network, Mandala Centre

Nottingham, NG7 6LB, United Kingdom

Location

Related Publications (4)

• Gibbon S, Khalifa NR, Cheung NH, Vollm BA, McCarthy L. Psychological interventions for antisocial personality disorder. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2020 Sep 3;9(9):CD007668. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD007668.pub3.

  PMID: 32880104 DERIVED

• Bakari M, Munseri P, Francis J, Aris E, Moshiro C, Siyame D, Janabi M, Ngatoluwa M, Aboud S, Lyamuya E, Sandstrom E, Mhalu F. Experiences on recruitment and retention of volunteers in the first HIV vaccine trial in Dar es Salam, Tanzania - the phase I/II HIVIS 03 trial. BMC Public Health. 2013 Dec 9;13:1149. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-1149.

  PMID: 24321091 DERIVED

• McMurran M, Cox WM, Whitham D, Hedges L. The addition of a goal-based motivational interview to treatment as usual to enhance engagement and reduce dropouts in a personality disorder treatment service: results of a feasibility study for a randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2013 Feb 17;14:50. doi: 10.1186/1745-6215-14-50.

  PMID: 23414174 DERIVED

• McMurran M, Cox WM, Coupe S, Whitham D, Hedges L. The addition of a goal-based motivational interview to standardised treatment as usual to reduce dropouts in a service for patients with personality disorder: a feasibility study. Trials. 2010 Oct 14;11:98. doi: 10.1186/1745-6215-11-98.

  PMID: 20946651 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Personality Disorders

Interventions

Therapeutics

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Mental Disorders

Study Officials

• Mary McMurran, Professor

  University of Nottingham

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: INVESTIGATOR
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER GOV
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 26, 2010
• First Posted: May 28, 2010
• Study Start: December 1, 2009
• Primary Completion: March 1, 2012
• Study Completion: July 1, 2012
• Last Updated: March 25, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-03

Locations

GB (1)