Screening of Adolescent Mental Suffering (DESPERADOS)

Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

Status: Completed

Conditions: Adolescent; Depression; Self-report Questionnaire

Treatments: Behavioral: consultation 10 days later

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT01707576

P090103

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full 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.

Enrollment: 346 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 13 to 17 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

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.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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346 participants in 1 patient group

screening of adolescent mental suffering. Management

Other group

Description:

screening of adolescent mental suffering consultant to emergencies. Management and later monitoring

Treatment:

Behavioral: consultation 10 days later