McMain GPM

DBT vs General Psychiatric Management for BPD

Paciente / Población Intervención / Exposición Comparación Desenlace

In 180 patients with BPD, 1 year of DBT achieved the same clinical improvement as structured general psychiatric management.

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180
Diseño
RCT, Canada
Desenlace
Self-harm, hospitalisation, symptom severity
Relevancia
2
ResultadoDBT and GPM equally effective across all primary outcomes.
McMain SF, et al. Am J Psychiatry. 2009;166(12):1365-1374. 10.1176/appi.ajp.2009.09010039
Discusión y crítica

Well-structured generalist care is good enough — vital for services without specialist DBT programmes.