ASPECTS: Acute Stress Programme for Children and Teenagers

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); Mental and Behavioural Disorders; Reaction to severe stress, and adjustment disorders

• Registration Number: ISRCTN38352118
• Lead Sponsor: Medical Research Council (MRC) (UK)

Brief Summary

2017 results in: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27976374

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2010-05-05
• Study Completion: 2013-08-01
• Last Update Posted: 30 April 2018

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 60

Inclusion Criteria

1. Exposure to a road traffic accident, an assault, or another discrete traumatic stressor (i.e. any event that involve the threat of death, severe injury, or threat to bodily integrity, or witnessing such an event)
2. Aged 8 - 17 years, either sex
3. Meeting Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition (DSM-IV) diagnostic criteria for PTSD, or the alternative algorthim for children and young people proposed by Scheeringa and colleagues (Scheeringa, Wright, Hunt, & Zeanah, 2006), assessed by a structured interview
4. The index trauma occurred 2 - 3 months prior to trial entry

Exclusion Criteria

1. Intellectual disability (i.e. mental retardation)
2. Another primary psychiatric diagnosis
3. PTSD following another previous trauma
4. Unconscious for greater than 15 minutes following the traumatic event
5. Not being fluent in English
6. Ongoing exposure to threat
7. History of organic brain damage
8. Significant risk of self-harm

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1. PTSD status, as assessed using the Children's PTSD Inventory (CPTSDI)<br>2. Child PTSD Symptom Scale (CPSS)<br><br>All of the primary and secondary outcome measures will be completed at the pre- and post-treatment assessments; all primary and secondary measures will be completed at the 6- and 12-month follow ups, with the exception of the Clinician's Global Assessment Scale.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
1. Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (MFQ)<br>2. Spence Children?s Anxiety Scale (SCAS)<br>3. Children?s Global Assessment Scale (CGAS)<br><br>All of the primary and secondary outcome measures will be completed at the pre- and post-treatment assessments; all primary and secondary measures will be completed at the 6- and 12-month follow ups, with the exception of the Clinician's Global Assessment Scale.