Screening of Adolescent Mental Suffering

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Depression; Adolescent; Self-report Questionnaire
• Interventions: Behavioral: consultation 10 days later

• Registration Number: NCT01707576
• Lead Sponsor: Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

Brief Summary

The primary purpose is to estimate the prevalence of depression and subsyndromal states among adolescents 13 to 17 years consulting to hospital emergency rooms for any reason, for they are another way of tracking this suffering, as they host many troubled teens at once for health problems and accidents sometimes iterative, reflecting their risk behaviour.

Secondary purposes are to assess the feasibility and desirability of a post-emergency medical consultation for adolescents who scored high on a self-administered questionnaire, and to assess the impact of this approach by later monitoring.

Detailed Description

This is a multicenter longitudinal survey in three emergency centers in Ile-de-France, with 2 periods of daily collection and comprehensive three weeks spread over one year, followed by a remote evaluation.

The project is as follows:

Phase A :

- Evaluation of the prevalence: systematic execution of self-administered questionnaire by all adolescents consulting, night and day in each center.

Phase B :

* For adolescents whose outcome questionnaire exceed 4, a post-emergency consultation will be proposed within 15 days.

* Telephone survey, 12 months after the passage of emergency every teenager who completed self-administered questionnaire and presenting himself to the post-emergency consultation. This survey will aim to assess the psychological status of adolescents and the impact of any specific treatment.

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2010-01
• Study Start: 2010-02
• Primary Completion: 2011-12
• Study Completion: 2012-06
• Study First Submitted: 2012-10-12
• Study First Submitted QC: 2012-10-15
• Study First Posted: 2012-10-16
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-04-01
• Last Update Posted: 2016-04-04

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 346

Inclusion Criteria

• Adolescents over the age of 13 to 17 years when passing emergency whatever the reason for consultation (surgical or medical, including attempted suicide or psychological problem)

Exclusion Criteria

• Young people not reading French.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
screening of adolescent mental suffering. Management	consultation 10 days later	screening of adolescent mental suffering consultant to emergencies. Management and later monitoring

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Responses to Self-reported questionnaire on risk behaviors, somatic complaints by adolescents and parents	10 months	A self-questionnaire ADRS (Adolescent Depression Rating Scale) will be asked to all adolescents to complete. Also the other questions will be answered by them concenrning somatisations and risk behaviors. Parents respond in the same time a self questionnaire.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Post-emergency consultation and reassessment of hetero-ADRS clinician questionnaire	6 months	Actual presence of adolescents suspected of depression at the post-emergency consultation and reassessment of their state using the hetero-ADRS-clinician questionnaire.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Department of paediatric emergencies, Ambroise Paré universitary hospital; 🇫🇷 Boulogne Billancourt, Ile de France, France