PMID- 35646607
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20220716
IS  - 2214-7829 (Electronic)
IS  - 2214-7829 (Linking)
VI  - 28
DP  - 2022 Apr
TI  - Effectiveness of family connections intervention for family members of persons 
      with personality disorders in two different formats: Online vs face-to-face.
PG  - 100532
LID - 10.1016/j.invent.2022.100532 [doi]
LID - 100532
AB  - INTRODUCTION: Personality disorders (PD) have a serious impact on the lives of 
      individuals who suffer from them and those around them. It is common for family 
      members to experience high levels of burden, anxiety, and depression, and 
      deterioration in their quality of life. It is curious that few interventions have 
      been developed for family members of people with PD. However, Family Connections 
      (FC) (Hoffman and Fruzzetti, 2005) is the most empirically supported intervention 
      for family members of people with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). AIM: The 
      aim of this study is to explore the effectiveness of online vs face-to-face FC. 
      Given the current social constraints resulting from SARS-CoV-2, interventions 
      have been delivered online and modified. METHOD: This was a non-randomized pilot 
      study with a pre-post evaluation and two conditions: The sample consisted of 45 
      family members distributed in two conditions: FC face-to-face (20) performed by 
      groups before the pandemic, and FC online (25), performed by groups during the 
      pandemic. All participants completed the evaluation protocol before and after the 
      intervention. RESULTS: There is a statistically significant improvement in levels 
      of burden (eta 2 = 0.471), depression, anxiety, and stress (eta 2 = 0.279), family 
      empowerment (eta 2 = 0.243), family functioning (eta 2 = 0.345), and quality of life 
      (mu2 eta 2 = 0.237). There were no differences based on the application format 
      burden (eta 2 = 0.134); depression, anxiety, and stress (eta 2 = 0.087); family 
      empowerment (eta 2 = 0,27), family functioning (eta 2 = 0.219); and quality of life 
      (eta 2 = 0.006), respectively). CONCLUSIONS: This study provides relevant data 
      about the possibility of implementing an intervention in a sample of family 
      members of people with PD in an online format without losing its effectiveness. 
      During the pandemic, and despite the initial reluctance of family members and the 
      therapists to carry out the interventions online, this work shows the 
      effectiveness of the results and the satisfaction of the family members. These 
      results are particularly relevant in a pandemic context, where there was no 
      possibility of providing help in other ways. All of this represents a great step 
      forward in terms of providing psychological treatment.
CI  - (c) 2022 The Author(s).
FAU - Guillen, V
AU  - Guillen V
AD  - Universidad de Valencia, Spain.
AD  - Ciber Fisiopatologia Obesidad y Nutricion (CB06/03 Instituto Salud Carlos III), 
      Spain.
FAU - Fonseca-Baeza, S
AU  - Fonseca-Baeza S
AD  - Universidad de Valencia, Spain.
FAU - Fernandez-Felipe, I
AU  - Fernandez-Felipe I
AD  - Universitat Jaume I de Castellon, Spain.
AD  - Ciber Fisiopatologia Obesidad y Nutricion (CB06/03 Instituto Salud Carlos III), 
      Spain.
FAU - Botella, C
AU  - Botella C
AD  - Universitat Jaume I de Castellon, Spain.
AD  - Ciber Fisiopatologia Obesidad y Nutricion (CB06/03 Instituto Salud Carlos III), 
      Spain.
FAU - Banos, R
AU  - Banos R
AD  - Universidad de Valencia, Spain.
AD  - Ciber Fisiopatologia Obesidad y Nutricion (CB06/03 Instituto Salud Carlos III), 
      Spain.
FAU - Garcia-Palacios, A
AU  - Garcia-Palacios A
AD  - Universitat Jaume I de Castellon, Spain.
AD  - Ciber Fisiopatologia Obesidad y Nutricion (CB06/03 Instituto Salud Carlos III), 
      Spain.
FAU - Marco, J H
AU  - Marco JH
AD  - Universidad de Valencia, Spain.
AD  - Ciber Fisiopatologia Obesidad y Nutricion (CB06/03 Instituto Salud Carlos III), 
      Spain.
LA  - eng
PT  - Editorial
DEP - 20220402
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Internet Interv
JT  - Internet interventions
JID - 101631612
PMC - PMC9136357
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Carers
OT  - Dialectical behavior therapy
OT  - Emotional dysregulation
OT  - Family members
OT  - Personality disorders
OT  - Psychological treatment to relatives
OT  - Relatives
COIS- The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or 
      personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in 
      this paper.
EDAT- 2022/06/02 06:00
MHDA- 2022/06/02 06:01
PMCR- 2022/04/02
CRDT- 2022/06/01 11:39
PHST- 2021/07/22 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/03/28 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2022/03/28 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2022/06/01 11:39 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/06/02 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/06/02 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2022/04/02 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - S2214-7829(22)00039-2 [pii]
AID - 100532 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.invent.2022.100532 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Internet Interv. 2022 Apr 2;28:100532. doi: 10.1016/j.invent.2022.100532. 
      eCollection 2022 Apr.