To assess the effectiveness and security of a mobile App (beta version) for people with borderline traits recruited from a non-clinical population of college students in Barcelona (Spain). The main primary outcome will be the severity of the emotional dysregulation. Forty participants will use the mobile app over 6 months. This group while be compared at post-treatment and at 3-month follow-up with other 40 participants (control group) with any intervention.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
80
Mobile app for self-managing emotional dysregulation
Emotion dysregulation severity
Severity of emotional dysregulation as measured by a single score from the The DERS scale (Difficulties in Emotion Regulation scale) (range: 0-88; the higher the score, the more severe the emotion dysregulation severity).
Time frame: 9-month
smartphone addiction
Severity of smartphone addiction as measured by the Spanish version of the The Smartphone Addiction Scale (SAS) (range: 10-60; the higher the score, the more severe the smartphone addiction severity).
Time frame: 9-month
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