Screening of Adolescent Mental Suffering

Depression Clinical Trial

— DESPERADOS  

Official title:

SCREENING OF ADOLESCENT MENTAL SUFFERING CONSULTANT TO EMERGENCIES, MANAGEMENT AND Later MONITORING

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01707576
• Other study ID #: P090103
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: October 12, 2012
• Last updated: April 1, 2016
• Start date: February 2010
• Est. completion date: June 2012

Study information

• Verified date: January 2010
• Source: Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: France: Ministry of Health
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial 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.

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 346
• Est. completion date: June 2012
• Est. primary completion date: December 2011
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 13 Years to 17 Years

Eligibility

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

Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Diagnostic

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Adolescent
• Depression
• Self-report Questionnaire

Intervention

Behavioral:
• consultation 10 days later
new depression screening

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	Department of paediatric emergencies, Ambroise Paré universitary hospital	Boulogne Billancourt	Ile de France

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris	Fondation de France, Pfizer

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Revaluation after one year	Revaluation after 1 year of the teenagers who come back to visit.	6 months	No
Primary	Responses to Self-reported questionnaire on risk behaviors, somatic complaints by adolescents and parents	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.	10 months	No
Secondary	Post-emergency consultation and reassessment of hetero-ADRS clinician questionnaire	Actual presence of adolescents suspected of depression at the post-emergency consultation and reassessment of their state using the hetero-ADRS-clinician questionnaire.	6 months	No