NCT06848127

Brief Summary

This study aims to characterize emotional dysregulation in complex post-traumatic stress disorder (cPTSD) and to determine the extent to which it can promote the distinction with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). As emotional dysregulation is a dynamic process whose phenomenological manifestations are labile, associated with physiological modifications and modulated by cognitive processing, a multiple methodology associating measurements in a real-life ecological context with measurements performed in the hospital will be preferred. Overall, this study proposes to capture, for the first time, the clinical manifestations associated with cPTSD from the perspective of emotional dysregulation and its underlying processes

Trial Health

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Trial Health Score

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Enrollment
170

participants targeted

Target at P75+ for not_applicable

Timeline
20mo left

Started Mar 2025

Typical duration for not_applicable

Status
not yet recruiting

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Study Timeline

Key milestones and dates

Study Progress43%
Mar 2025Dec 2027

First Submitted

Initial submission to the registry

February 12, 2025

Completed
14 days until next milestone

First Posted

Study publicly available on registry

February 26, 2025

Completed
3 days until next milestone

Study Start

First participant enrolled

March 1, 2025

Completed
2 years until next milestone

Primary Completion

Last participant's last visit for primary outcome

March 1, 2027

Expected
9 months until next milestone

Study Completion

Last participant's last visit for all outcomes

December 1, 2027

Last Updated

February 26, 2025

Status Verified

February 1, 2025

Enrollment Period

2 years

First QC Date

February 12, 2025

Last Update Submit

February 20, 2025

Conditions

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

  • Characterizing the emotional pattern

    Comparison of DERS scores in groups ( an effect size of 0.37 for the means of DERS by group)

    Day 1

Secondary Outcomes (21)

  • Assessing subjective differences in real-life emotional experience

    From Day 14 till Day 21

  • Evaluate physiological responses in hospital consultations and in real life

    From Day 7 to Day 14

  • Studying the cognitive correlates of emotional dysregulation

    From Day 7 to Day 14

  • Investigate the concordance between subjective and physiological measures of dysregulation Emotional

    Up to 3 years

  • The concordance between cognitive and physiological measures of dysregulation Emotional

    Up to 3 years

  • +16 more secondary outcomes

Study Arms (5)

Healthy voluntary group

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

50 healthy volunteers who have been exposed to a traumatic event but without traumatic symptoms and with subthreshold scores on the PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 and Borderline Symptom List.

Other: Self-questionnairesOther: Cognitive assessmentOther: Momentary Ecological Assessment (EMA)

Group Patients with cPTSD

EXPERIMENTAL

30 Patients diagnosed with cPTSD according to ICD-11 criteria

Other: Self-questionnairesOther: Cognitive assessmentOther: Momentary Ecological Assessment (EMA)Other: Semi-structured interviews ITI and DSCID-II

Group Patients with PTSD

EXPERIMENTAL

30 Patients diagnosed with PTSD according to ICD-11 criteria

Other: Self-questionnairesOther: Cognitive assessmentOther: Momentary Ecological Assessment (EMA)Other: Semi-structured interviews ITI and DSCID-II

Group Patients with BPD

EXPERIMENTAL

30 Patients with a diagnosis of BPD, according to DSM-5 criteria

Other: Self-questionnairesOther: Cognitive assessmentOther: Momentary Ecological Assessment (EMA)Other: Semi-structured interviews ITI and DSCID-II

Group Patients with cPTSD + BPD comorbidity

EXPERIMENTAL

30 Patients with cPTSD + BPD comorbidity, established prior to inclusion

Other: Self-questionnairesOther: Cognitive assessmentOther: Momentary Ecological Assessment (EMA)Other: Semi-structured interviews ITI and DSCID-II

Interventions

All subjects (healthy volunteers and all patients) will complete a battery of self-questionnaires, assessing emotional dysregulation, traumatic symptoms, alteration of the sense of self, sensitivity to social rejection, dissociative symptoms, child abuse, functional repercussions of the disorders, depressive and anxiety symptoms and Impulsivity.

Group Patients with BPDGroup Patients with PTSDGroup Patients with cPTSDGroup Patients with cPTSD + BPD comorbidityHealthy voluntary group

Completion of cognitive assessment, consisting of verbal fluency tasks , emotional Hayling, a dissociative associative memory retrieval task, a negative priming task and a heart rhythm detection task. The tasks of associative-dissociative memory retrieval, negative priming and heart rhythm detection will be coupled with a physiological recording, via a Biopac, to measure the change in skin conductance, body temperature and heart rate. The negative priming task will also be associated with the recording of eye movements allowing an indirect measurement of attentional orientation.

Group Patients with BPDGroup Patients with PTSDGroup Patients with cPTSDGroup Patients with cPTSD + BPD comorbidityHealthy voluntary group

A momentary ecological evaluation protocol will be proposed (between visits V1 and V2 for all subjects and between V3 and V4 for the 4 groups of patients) in order to assess emotional and symptomatic dynamics in a daily life context through a connected wath. During 7 days, subjects will be invited, via their smartphone, to carry out daily semi-random readings (indicated by smartphone notifications) of their subjective emotional experiences (10 once/day), but also spontaneous (by reporting emotions deemed intense immediately afterwards that they take place).

Group Patients with BPDGroup Patients with PTSDGroup Patients with cPTSDGroup Patients with cPTSD + BPD comorbidityHealthy voluntary group

ITI International Trauma Interview is a semi-structured interview consisting of one part allocated to the description of a traumatic event and two parts addressing the symptoms of PTSD (i.e. reliving, avoidance and alteration of wakefulness) and the symptoms of the disturbance of self-organization. The SCID-II Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Personality Disorder is a 90-item semi-structured interview, covering all 10 categories of personality disorder as described in the DSM-IV.

Group Patients with BPDGroup Patients with PTSDGroup Patients with cPTSDGroup Patients with cPTSD + BPD comorbidity

Eligibility Criteria

Age18 Years+
Sexall
Healthy VolunteersYes
Age GroupsAdult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

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Sponsors & Collaborators

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Borderline Personality DisorderStress Disorders, Post-Traumatic

Interventions

Mental Status and Dementia TestsEcological Momentary Assessment

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Personality DisordersMental DisordersStress Disorders, TraumaticTrauma and Stressor Related Disorders

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Neuropsychological TestsPsychological TestsBehavioral Disciplines and Activities

Study Officials

  • Luisa WEINER, Professor

    Department of Psychiatry II Psychiatry, Mental Health and Addiction Medicine, University Hospitals of Strasbourg

    PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Luisa WEINER, Professor

CONTACT

Study Design

Study Type
interventional
Phase
not applicable
Allocation
NON RANDOMIZED
Masking
NONE
Purpose
OTHER
Intervention Model
PARALLEL
Sponsor Type
OTHER
Responsible Party
SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

First Submitted

February 12, 2025

First Posted

February 26, 2025

Study Start

March 1, 2025

Primary Completion (Estimated)

March 1, 2027

Study Completion (Estimated)

December 1, 2027

Last Updated

February 26, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-02