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Early Prevention of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

NCT02004743 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 99

Last updated 2016-08-10

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Summary

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre is Canada's largest trauma centre, treating 1,100 patients annually. A traumatic experience can lead to post-traumatic stress disorder, which increases hospital stays, emergency visits and disability. Despite developing leadership to manage a "Code Orange" mass trauma, Sunnybrook lacks guidelines in the psychological management of patients who have experienced trauma. The department of psychiatry currently holds a Traumatic Brain Injury clinic and PTSD services for youth but lacks both immediate intervention, prevention and adult services. This research will enable us to gain best evidence expertise to develop guidelines as well as a sustainable PTSD treatment program, with clear outcomes to assess effectiveness, psychiatric morbidity, use of healthcare, disability and substance abuse.

The five world-expert-consensus intervention resilience based principles will be operationalized in guidelines for the management of trauma patients, their caregivers and in routine nursing and trauma team care from the Emergency to the ward, and discharge, through to outpatient care. It is hypothesized that this will improve the psychological recovery of patients at risk of developing PTSD after a traumatic injury. In addition, early screening and intervention for increased risk of PTSD will be implemented one month after the trauma. It is hypothesized that such trauma informed psychological management, early screening and expert treatment using prolonged exposure will reduce hospital stays, functional disability, as well as longer-term psychiatric morbidity, including substance abuse.

Conditions

  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Intervention

Psychological guidelines and PET Patients will receive questionnaires at recruitment, 1 month, 3 months and 6 months based on the timeline of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) -IV criteria for PTSD.

OTHER

Treatment as usual

Participants will experience treatment as usual. Patients will receive questionnaires at recruitment, 1 month, 3 months and 6 months based on the timeline of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) -IV criteria for PTSD

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Janet Ellis, Dr. · Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
14 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-01-31
Primary Completion
2014-09-30
Completion
2015-09-30

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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