Teenagers After London Terrorist Attack (AVAL)

Regional University Hospital Center (CHRU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Adolescent Development; Terrorism; Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Treatments: Other: Questionnaires

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03493243

AVAL (29BRC17.0248)

Details and patient eligibility

About

• 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.

Full 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)

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 14 to 20 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

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.

Trial design

40 participants in 1 patient group

Adolescents exposed

Description:

Only clinical questionnaires

Treatment:

Other: Questionnaires