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Predictive Factors of PTSD in Adults Admitted to an Emergency Service

NCT03615014 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 460

Last updated 2025-12-19

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Summary

After trauma or stress factor like death exposition, serious injuries or sexual violence, some patients may develop stress reaction characterized by the presence of various symptoms among different categories (reviviscence, negative humor, dissociates symptoms, occasion, hypervigilance). In the month following trauma, the investigators speak of acute stress reaction (ASR) when symptoms are present during at least three days. If symptoms are present one month after trauma, then it is a post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Among patients visiting emergency after latest trauma, quite a few is in acute stress reaction. However, this reaction is often incorrectly identified by healthcare team, due to lack of oriented medical examination, patients visiting about other complaints (pain, insomnia) and not expressing clearly the trauma context. Yet, it is know that acute stress reaction occurrence and existence of dissociate symptoms after trauma confrontation is considerably predictive of the eventual post-traumatic stress disorder occurrence.

The identification of risk population of post-traumatic stress disorder is not the subject of any particular structured procedure in emergency services while early care of these patients may allow limiting post-traumatic stress disorder occurrence and associate consequences. Previous works on the subject having exclusively targeted some trauma subgroups or some predictive factors subtypes, investigators propose here biopsychosocial global approach that can weight the impact of each parameters.

In this study, investigators aim at determining predictive biopsychosocial factors of the post-traumatic stress disorder occurrence at 3 months in patients visiting emergency after latest trauma (less than one month old) and identified as "high-risk" to develop post-traumatic stress disorder (moderate or high).

Conditions

  • Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
  • Psychiatric Issue

Interventions

OTHER

Filling questionnaires

Questionnaires will be submitted to patients during their visit to emergency service and 3 months later to evaluate the prevalence of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and to identify predictive biopsychosocial factors

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Hospices Civils de Lyon

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Clémence BIED, Dr · Hospices Civils de Lyon

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-02-11
Primary Completion
2019-10-09
Completion
2019-10-09

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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