Internet-delivered interventions for personality disorders - A scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Personality disorders (PDs) form a substantial part of the mental health disease burden. Effective therapies to treat PDs exist, but they are time-consuming, costly, and difficult to scale up. Delivery through the internet could facilitate the scalability of effective treatment methods.

Objective

This review summarizes existing evidence on internet-delivered psychotherapy for personality disorders.

Methods

Because few randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have been carried out, we conducted a scoping review. We performed a systematic literature search in PubMed, Embase, MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycInfo, and Cochrane. Studies were selected if they conveyed research findings on internet-delivered PD interventions.

Results

Eleven studies were included. The major

SUBMITTER: van der Boom B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9018158 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature