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Post-traumatic Stress Injuries Among Paramedics and Emergency Dispatchers

NCT04202042 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 70

Last updated 2019-12-17

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Summary

As part of their work, emergency first responders, such as paramedics and emergency medical dispatchers are exposed daily to traumatic events. These traumatic events can have many impacts on mental health, such as acute stress disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder. Research has shown that intervening early after exposure to a traumatic event helps to identify people at risk and to prevent post-traumatic stress disorder. The Psychological First Aid approach originally developed for mass traumas, is an intervention advocated by international experts today following a traumatic event. However, this approach is still very little studied, especially when it is part of an organization of emergency first responders. It therefore still lacks scientific validity. The main objective of this research will be to assess whether the Psychological First Aid program provided by peer-support workers helps to reduce the initial distress caused by traumatic events and to foster short- and long-term adaptive functioning and coping.

Conditions

  • Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
  • Acute Stress Disorder
  • Anxiety Disorders
  • Depressive Disorder
  • Substance Abuse
  • Absenteeism

Interventions

OTHER

Psychological first aid

PFA responders (peer support workers) are trained to deliver 8 core actions: contact and engagement, safety and comfort, stabilization, information gathering, practical assistance, connection with social supports, information on coping, and linkage with collaborative services

OTHER

Usual organisational intervention

Emergency intervention by workplace psychologist and limited therapeutic sessions with employee aid program

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire en santé Mentale de Montréal

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Luc De Montigny · Urgences-santé

  • Stephane Guay · Research Center of the Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-10-21
Primary Completion
2020-07-31
Completion
2020-11-30

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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Diseases

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