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Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder: What Symptomatological Specificities

Conditions
Psychiatric Health
Interventions
Other: clinical population
Registration Number
NCT05070962
Lead Sponsor
Raincy Montfermeil Hospital Group
Brief Summary

A better understanding of the Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder would allow a management as close as possible to the specificities of this one, but also a better training of professionals and adapted therapeutic indications.

Detailed Description

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder manifests itself in a multitude of symptoms and self-regulation difficulties in various domains (somatization and biological balance, attention and consciousness, regulation of affects and impulses, interpersonal relationships and relational capacities, perception of the aggressor and of the aggression, self-perception and identity, sense and belief system) as well as profound changes in personality and various comorbidities .In addition, dissociation, the origin and the resulting disorders also have some similarities to Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Indeed, dissociation is thought to have a traumatic origin and the symptomatology (eg hyperesthesia, dissociative amnesia, anesthesia) is included in Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. We can then ask ourselves the following questions: is Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder a dissociative disorder in its own right causing difficulties with self-regulation? What is the share of dissociation in Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
UNKNOWN
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
500
Inclusion Criteria

For clinical population;

  • Age between 18 and 65 years old;
  • Having experienced repeated and prolonged traumatic exposure;
  • Able to understand and answer self-questionnaires;
  • Having expressed their free and informed consent
  • Affiliated with a social security scheme

For general population:

  • Student volunteers from the University of Lille;
  • Aged between 18 and 65 years old;
  • Able to understand and answer self-questionnaires;
  • Having expressed their free and informed consent.
Exclusion Criteria

For clinical population;

  • People with difficulties in answering the self-questionnaires (e.g. incomprehension of items, emotional difficulties);
  • Persons under tutorship or curatorship;
  • Persons deprived of their liberty.

For general population:

  • People with difficulties in answering the self-questionnaires (e.g. incomprehension of items, emotional difficulties);
  • Persons under tutorship or curatorship;
  • Persons deprived of their liberty;
  • Persons having a link of subordination with the investigative team.

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Clinical populationclinical populationhaving experienced repeated and prolonged traumatic exposure
General populationclinical populationStudent volunteers from the University of Lille
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
the symptomatological characteristics of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorderduring the study

to evaluate the symptomatic characteristics of TSPTc evoked by the authors (cognitions, emotional regulation, comorbidities, etc.) in order to better identify the symptomatic specificities of the disorder and improve its management.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Validation of the French version of two self-assessment scales;during the study

Validate the French-language version of two TSPTc self-assessment scales (SIDES-SR and ITQ) on a French population;

differences in self-assessment of the participant's overall functioning and personalityduring the study

differences in participant's general functioning and personality self-assessment between tCPD and personality disorders - specifically Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

USAP CHI Robert Ballanger Boulevard Robert Ballanger

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Aulnay-sous-Bois, France

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