Clinical trial NCT01213797: IMTAP : Impact of the Suicide Attempt on the Nearly Entourage in Term of Traumatic Stress and Medico-economic Impact
Official title: Impact of the Suicide Attempt on the Close Entourage: Traumatic Stress and Medico-economic Concerns, in Medium and Long Term
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Suicide, Attempted
Relatives
Keywords: Suicide
Lead sponsor: University Hospital, Lille
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2010-10-04
Enrollment: 372
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: 500 families; 500 committing suicide and approximately 900 close relatives.

Brief summary: With 11.000 deaths and 150.000 attempts each year in France, the suicide represents an important public health problem. For each death by suicide, one can count 6 "direct" bereaved people and 20 people in more indirect connection with this mourning (Terra 2001). In term of impact, there is thus 300.000 people (annually) touched by the deaths by suicide and 3.750.000 people (annually) touched by the "suicide attempt" of a close relative. It seems indeed important to have Public Health data on this cascade repercussion of the suicide attempt.

A suicide attempt propagates a suffering cascade on the various circles of the family and close entourage, which can be measured in term of traumatic stress and medico-economic impact.

Objective = To measure the medico-economic impact on the entourage, in the 3 months following the suicide attempt and at 1 year.

Detailed description: Secondary objectives = To measure the impact of the suicide attempt in traumatic term of stress on the close relatives of committing suicide confronted with the suicidal scene To compare the evolution of consumption of care of the close relatives and of committing suicide To measure the evolution of the general health condition of the close relatives and of committing suicide

The study participants (committing suicide it and the relatives) will be recontacted by telephone, after 3 months and to 1 year.

Consumption of care (number of consultations, drugs consumption) of the population of the close relatives of committing suicide will be compared with the data of the Research Institute and Documentation in Economy of Health (IRDES) on the French population (sample of 20.000 people, representative of 95% of the French households).

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria for Suicide attempter :

* Men or women
* Older than 18 years
* Survivor with an suicide attempt going back to less than 15 days

Inclusion Criteria for close relations of committing suicide :

* Men or women
* age more than 18 years
* Members of the entourage of committing suicide
* Living under the same roof as committing suicide it

Primary outcomes:
measure: Consumption of care in the close relatives of a suicide attempter
timeFrame: one year
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Psychological level of distress
timeFrame: one year
measure: Links between consumption of care and psychological level of distress
timeFrame: one year
measure: Prevalence of the post-traumatic stress disorder
timeFrame: one year
measure: Evolution of consumption of care
timeFrame: one year
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Angers
country: France
facility: University Hospital, Angers
city: Brest
country: France
facility: University Hospital, Brest
city: Caen
country: France
facility: University Hospital, Caen
city: Clermont-Ferrand
country: France
facility: University Hospital, Clermont-Ferrand
city: Lille
country: France
facility: University Hospital, Lille
city: Limoges
country: France
facility: University Hospital, Limoges
city: Lyon
country: France
facility: Le Vinatier Hospital
city: Nancy
country: France
facility: University Hospital, Nancy
city: Nice
country: France
facility: University Hospital, Nice
city: Paris
country: France
facility: Tenon Hospital, Paris
city: Quimper
country: France
facility: General Hospital, Quimper
city: Tourcoing
country: France
facility: EPSM Lille Metropole
Study officials:
affiliation: University Hospital, Lille
name: Guillaume VAIVA
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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