Participant flow
DISORDER
Two hundred and eighty-one carers were considered for inclusion in the study and 103 were excluded. The most common reasons for exclusion were that consent was not completed before the client was discharged from HYPE (The 73 carers were family or friends of 53 clients. Data were not collected on seven clients because consent could not be obtained from them prior to discharge from HYPE (CONSORT diagram.Bold represents carers and () represents units. MS-BPD, Making Sense of Borderline Personality Disorder group program.