Empowerment of personal injury victims.
Completed
- Conditions
- Personal injury, Claims settlement, Secondary victimization, Perceived justiceWellbeing
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON24947
- Lead Sponsor
- VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Brief Summary
Elbers, N.A., Cuijpers, P., Akkermans, A.J. & Bruinvels, D.J. (2009). Het slachtoffer centraal vanuit psychologisch perspectief. In Crossing the Rubicon (p. 16-19). Den Haag: De Letselschade Raad.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 170
Inclusion Criteria
1. Being a road traffic victim;
2. Accident happened less than two years ago;
Exclusion Criteria
N/A
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Empowerment (Mastery Scale by Pearlin and Schooler, 1978; 9 self developed self efficacy items about dealing with claims settlement, the injury and the accident) (T0, T3).
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Perceived justice (Organizational Justice Questionnaire by Colquitt, 2001; 15 self developed additional perceived justice items about the compensation, the opposite party and the representative) (T0, T1, T2, T3);<br /><br>2. Wellbeing (Vas scale of EuroQol by The EuroQol Group, 1990 (T0, T1, T2, T3); Four-Dimensional Symptom Questionnaire by Terluin, 1996 (T0, T3));<br /><br>3. Stress (Perceived Stress Scale by Cohen e.a., 1983) (T0, T1, T2, T3);<br /><br>4. Claim (1 self developed item about the estimated financial damage) (T2);<br /><br>5. Knowledge (7 self deleloped knowledge items about claims settlement, the representative, the opposite party, social services, conflict sollutions and dealing with problems) (T0, T1, T2, T3).<br><br /><br /><br>All measurements are online questionnaires, provided by NetQuestionnaire.