U.S., Feb. 4 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT06804369) titled 'Benchmarking and Change Mechanisms in Personality Disorder Treatment' on Jan. 21.
Brief Summary: Personality disorders (PDs) are severe mental disorders characterized by pathological personality traits as well as problems in identity and interpersonal relationships (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Several effective psychotherapies for PDs have been developed in the past decades, however, two important questions regarding PD treatment have not been sufficiently addressed: (1) how effective are PD treatments outside of the controlled settings of randomized controlled trials (RCTs); (2) are the effects of PDT clinically meaning...