NCT01707576

Screening of Adolescent Mental Suffering

SCREENING OF ADOLESCENT MENTAL SUFFERING CONSULTANT TO EMERGENCIES, MANAGEMENT AND Later MONITORING

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 346 (actual)
• Sponsor: Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 13 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The primary purpose is to estimate the prevalence of depression and subsyndromal states among adolescents 13 to 17 years consulting to hospital emergency rooms for any reason, for they are another way of tracking this suffering, as they host many troubled teens at once for health problems and accidents sometimes iterative, reflecting their risk behaviour. Secondary purposes are to assess the feasibility and desirability of a post-emergency medical consultation for adolescents who scored high on a self-administered questionnaire, and to assess the impact of this approach by later monitoring.

Detailed description

This is a multicenter longitudinal survey in three emergency centers in Ile-de-France, with 2 periods of daily collection and comprehensive three weeks spread over one year, followed by a remote evaluation. The project is as follows: Phase A : \- Evaluation of the prevalence: systematic execution of self-administered questionnaire by all adolescents consulting, night and day in each center. Phase B : * For adolescents whose outcome questionnaire exceed 4, a post-emergency consultation will be proposed within 15 days. * Telephone survey, 12 months after the passage of emergency every teenager who completed self-administered questionnaire and presenting himself to the post-emergency consultation. This survey will aim to assess the psychological status of adolescents and the impact of any specific treatment.

Conditions

• Depression
• Adolescent
• Self-report Questionnaire

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	consultation 10 days later	new depression screening

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-02-01
• Primary completion: 2011-12-01
• Completion: 2012-06-01
• First posted: 2012-10-16
• Last updated: 2016-04-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France