Evaluation of Acute Pain in Maltreated Children

Completed

• Conditions: Pain

• Registration Number: NCT00721682
• Lead Sponsor: Nantes University Hospital

Brief Summary

The hypothesis of this study is nonrecognition by the medical team of pain in maltreated children. These children would have a particular painful behaviour, "quiet". The management of their pain would be then unsuited, which could explain their complex relation with the pain in the adulthood. A pilot study realized in the CHU of Nantes on 11 files of maltreated children showed that they had very low scores of evaluation of the pain, in spite of severe traumatisms. There is, at the moment, no data in the literature on the acute pain of the maltreated children.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2008-07-22
• Study First Submitted QC: 2008-07-22
• Study First Posted: 2008-07-24
• Study Start: 2008-11
• Primary Completion: 2013-04
• Study Completion: 2013-04
• Status Verified: 2013-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2013-10-23
• Last Update Posted: 2013-10-24

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 78

Inclusion Criteria

• Age between 0 and 6 years
• Consultation in the emergency cares for traumatism with type of fracture and/or burn
• Time of the traumatism lower than 24 hours
• Information of the two parents or the parental authority and collection of the non-opposition.

Exclusion Criteria

• Old superior at 6 years
• Any type of traumatism other than a fracture and/or a burn
• Traumatism without possible dating or with a time of consultation higher than 24 hours
• Opposition of the parents formulated after their information by the medical team
• Child who can not have an evaluation of the pain with the chosen scales

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The principal judgement criterion is the proportion of children without recognized pain, measured with the rating scales validated in paediatrics, in T0, in the two populations of children (maltreated and others).	3 years

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Agreement between the evaluations of the pain made by the nursery nurses and those done by the doctors	3 years
Study of the correlation enters the managed painful treatments and the recommendations of painful treatment for each pathology.	3 years
Comparison of the quantitative scores of evaluation of the pain enters the two populations of children (maltreated and others)	3 years

Trial Locations

Locations (7)

CH Saint Nazaire; 🇫🇷 Saint Nazaire, France

CHD les oudairies; 🇫🇷 La Roche sur Yon, France

nantes University Hospital; 🇫🇷 Nantes, Pays de La Loire, France

Ch Cholet; 🇫🇷 Cholet, France

Angers university Hospital; 🇫🇷 Angers, France

GHH; 🇫🇷 Le Havre, France

rennes university Hospital; 🇫🇷 Rennes, France