Clinical trial NCT01707576: Screening of Adolescent Mental Suffering
Official title: SCREENING OF ADOLESCENT MENTAL SUFFERING CONSULTANT TO EMERGENCIES, MANAGEMENT AND Later MONITORING
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Depression
Adolescent
Self-report Questionnaire
Keywords: Follow-Up Studies
Adolescent
Depressive Disorder, Major/diagnosis
Attempted/prevention & control
Self-report questionnaire
emmergency department
parental perception
Emergency
Lead sponsor: Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: Pfizer
name: Fondation de France
First posted: 2012-10-16
Enrollment: 346
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 13
Maximum age (years): 17
Standard ages: CHILD
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: DIAGNOSTIC

Brief 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.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Adolescents over the age of 13 to 17 years when passing emergency whatever the reason for consultation (surgical or medical, including attempted suicide or psychological problem)

Exclusion Criteria:

* Young people not reading French.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Responses to Self-reported questionnaire on risk behaviors, somatic complaints by adolescents and parents
timeFrame: 10 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Post-emergency consultation and reassessment of hetero-ADRS clinician questionnaire
timeFrame: 6 months
Other outcomes:
measure: Revaluation after one year
timeFrame: 6 months
Locations:
city: Boulogne Billancourt
country: France
facility: Department of paediatric emergencies, Ambroise Paré universitary hospital
state: Ile de France
Study officials:
affiliation: Ambroise Paré University Hospital
name: Chantal Stheneur, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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