DSM-5 Personality Traits and Response to Treatment
Research type
Research Study
Full title
The Relationship Between DSM-5 Dimensional Personality Traits and Clinical Outcomes in Forensic Inpatient Services.
IRAS ID
229977
Contact name
Alison Babitsky
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of East Anglia
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 8 months, 27 days
Research summary
In the United Kingdom, if someone becomes unwell because of their mental health and demonstrates behavior indicating a risk of harm to themselves or others, they may be admitted into a secure hospital to get treatment. The treatment provided in hospital is multimodal, and provided by a broad multidisciplinary team. In the past, studies have found that people respond to treatment in different ways, and it does not work for everybody. However, very little research has explored why treatment may benefit some people and not others. This is unfortunate because it means that some groups of people may receive sub-optimal treatment.
In the literature, it is well established that outcomes of many types of treatment are influenced by the core personality traits of the individual. This study wants to find out if personality traits affect how people respond to the treatment received whilst detained in a secure hospital. We will approach this question by asking people in hospital to complete a personality questionnaire. Information regarding their change in risk, and broad change in clinical outcomes, will be collected from different time points from information routinely recorded. Afterwards we will explore whether there is a relationship between the way in which these outcome scores change, and the personality traits of the individual.
It is important to try to find out if people with different personality traits respond differently to treatment, as establishing a difference may guide attempts to improve specific treatment pathways for different groups of people.
REC name
East Midlands - Leicester Central Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
18/EM/0035
Date of REC Opinion
15 Mar 2018
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion