Reply to Choi-Kain and colleagues’: Correspondence to Setkowski and colleagues on best psychotherapies for borderline personality disorder

We appreciate the judicious comments of Choi-Kain et al. (2023) on our network meta-analysis (NMA) (Setkowski et al., 2023). The authors identified an important challenge within the field, namely that psychological treatments are sometimes labeled differently compared to what they provide. Not all studies included in our NMA provide a clear description of their intervention- and control conditions (e.g., treatment-as-usual). As described in Supplemental Table S2 (Setkowski et al., 2023), some of the included studies provided little to no information about their control conditions, whereas others described them in great detail. However, this is an issue (N)MAs in general face. We therefore encourage the field to be more detailed about the intervention- and control conditions they examine.