%0 Journal Article
%@ 2368-7959
%I JMIR Publications
%V 5
%N 4
%P e10983
%T A Schema Therapy–Based eHealth Program for Patients with Borderline Personality Disorder (priovi): Naturalistic Single-Arm Observational Study
%A Jacob,Gitta Anne
%A Hauer,Andrea
%A Köhne,Sandra
%A Assmann,Nele
%A Schaich,Anja
%A Schweiger,Ulrich
%A Fassbinder,Eva
%+ GAIA AG, Hans-Henny-Jahnn-Weg 53, Hamburg, 22085, Germany, 49 403510520, gitta.jacob@gaia-group.com
%K borderline personality disorder
%K eHealth
%K mHealth
%K psychotherapy
%K schema therapy
%D 2018
%7 17.12.2018
%9 Original Paper
%J JMIR Ment Health
%G English
%X Background: Electronic health (eHealth) programs have been found to be effective in treating many psychological conditions. However, regarding borderline personality disorder (BPD), only a few eHealth programs have been tested, involving small interventions based on the dialectical behavior therapy treatment approach. We investigated priovi, a program based on the schema therapy (ST) approach. priovi is considerably more comprehensive than prior programs, offering broad psychoeducation content and many therapeutic exercises. Objective: We tested the acceptability and feasibility of priovi in 14 patients with BPD as an add-on to individual face-to-face ST. Methods: Patients received weekly individual ST and used priovi over a period of 12 months. We assessed BPD symptom severity using self-reported and interview-based measures. Qualitative interviews were conducted with both patients and therapists to assess their experiences with priovi. Results: BPD symptoms improved significantly (Cohen d=1.0). Overall, qualitative data showed that priovi was positively received by both patients and therapists. Some exercises provoked mild anxiety; however, no serious threat to safety was detected. Conclusions: priovi is a potentially helpful and safe tool that could support individual ST. It needs to be further tested in a randomized controlled study. Trial Registration: German Clinical Trials Register DRKS00011538; https://www.drks.de/drks_web/navigate.do? navigationId=trial.HTML&TRIAL_ID=DRKS00011538 (Archived by WebCite at http://www.webcitation.org/74jb0AgV8) 
%M 30559092
%R 10.2196/10983
%U http://mental.jmir.org/2018/4/e10983/
%U https://doi.org/10.2196/10983
%U http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30559092