The BRIDGE Project
Research type
Research Study
Full title
The BRIDGE project: A feasibility randomised controlled trial of brief, intensive assessment and integrated formulation for young people (age 14-24) early in the course of borderline personality disorder.
IRAS ID
299825
Contact name
Ruchika Gajwani
Contact email
Duration of Study in the UK
3 years, 0 months, 0 days
Research summary
This project is the first step in testing a new intervention programme, called BRIDGE (Brief, Intensive Assessment and Integrated Formulation), for young people early in the course of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). The BRIDGE Project will help us find out whether we can do a much bigger study in the future that will tell us whether BRIDGE works well.
BPD is characterised by long standing difficulty in managing emotional responses, personal relationships, impulse control and self-image. Research shows that individuals with BPD may experience discrimination and resulting stigmatisation by both the public and health care professionals. Many adolescents and young people with complex needs and high suicide risk are left under-diagnosed and untreated. As a result, young people with BPD are frequently not in education or training and experience challenging relationships with
friends and families.The overall aim of the study is to assess the possibility of providing a treatment programme for young people with BPD symptoms in the general population, who may or may not be accessing any mental health services. First, we need to see whether young people are happy to be randomly allocated to BRIDGE (AND service as usual) or Service as usual (ALONE) (a bit like tossing a coin). Second, we need to find out whether enough young people want to be involved. Third, whether we can find out the information we need about them and can follow up enough young people later.
The proposed study will try to find these things out, so that we can design a future, bigger, study to find out whether BRIDGE is good value for young people with BPD.
REC name
North West - Haydock Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
21/NW/0209
Date of REC Opinion
30 Jul 2021
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion