Clinical trial NCT03493243: Teenagers After London Terrorist Attack
Official title: AVAL Cohort Study First Step, Observational Study, After One Year
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Adolescent Development
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Terrorism
Keywords: Adolescent
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Terrorist Attack
Lead sponsor: University Hospital, Brest
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2018-04-10
Enrollment: 40
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 14
Maximum age (years): 20
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: * 53 Teenagers;
* Saint-Joseph high school (29)
* Directly exposed.

Brief summary: * Context: Since March 2012, several terrorist attacks have been perpetrated in France (Toulouse, Montauban, Paris, Nice ...). In March 2017, 53 french teenagers were victims in a terrorist attack in London (Westminster Bridge).
* Main goal = to estimate the psycho-traumatic impact and to describe cares and management of high school students, victims of the terrorist attack in London on 2017, March the 22nd.
* 3 secondary objectives: 1) Clinical (occurrence of Post Traumatic Stress Disorders or other disorders); 2) Epidemiological (risk factors for developing disorders, avoiding care); 3) Preventive and therapeutic.

Detailed description: Inclusion criterion: 53 teenagers of Saint-Joseph high school (Concarneau, France) directly exposed to the terrorist attack.

Methodology: self questionnaires and heterogenous questionnaires; descriptive statistics (means +/- standard deviations; search for a significant difference according to traumatic symptomatology)

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* 53 teenagers, from Concarneau (France) high school, directly exposed from London terrorist attack (22.03.2017).

Exclusion Criteria:

* All persons not directly exposed;
* Relatives of teenagers;
* 3 physically injured teenagers.

Primary outcomes:
measure: PTSD
timeFrame: One year after the terrorist attack (Day 1)
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Clinical (occurence of Post Traumatic Stress Disorders or other disorders)
timeFrame: One year after the terrorist attack (Day 1)
measure: Epidemiological (risk factors for developing disorders, avoiding care);
timeFrame: One year after the terrorist attack (Day 1)
measure: Preventive and therapeutic
timeFrame: One year after the terrorist attack (Day 1)
measure: Epidemiological (risk factors for developing disorders, avoiding care);
timeFrame: One year after the terrorist attack (Day 1)
measure: Epidemiological (risk factors for developing disorders, avoiding care);
timeFrame: One year after the terrorist attack (Day 1)
measure: Epidemiological (risk factors for developing disorders, avoiding care);
timeFrame: One year after the terrorist attack (Day 1)
measure: Preventive and therapeutic
timeFrame: One year after the terrorist attack (Day 1)
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Brest
country: France
facility: CHU
city: Brest
country: France
facility: HIA Hôpital d'Instruction des Armées Clermont Tonnerre
Study officials:
affiliation: CHU Brest
name: Nathalie V COULON, MD PhD
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
References:
citation: Grenon M, Consigny M, Lemey C, Simson JP, Coulon N. Impact of a Terrorist Attack on the Mental Health of Directly Exposed French Adolescents: Study Protocol for the First Step of the AVAL Cohort Study. Front Psychiatry. 2019 Oct 25;10:744. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00744. eCollection 2019.