Screening Emotions in Adolescents at the Hospital for mTBI — SEARCH-mTBI  

Brain Injuries Clinical Trial

Official title: Screening Emotions in Adolescents Receiving Care at the Hospital for mTBI (SEARCH-mTBI)

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

The goal of this observational study is to develop and validate a clinical tool to predict which adolescents aged 11 to less than 18 years of age with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) are at an increased risk for developing significant new or worsening mental health conditions.

The main aims the study wish to answer are:

• Does the adolescent have new or worsening depression or anxiety defined as a change from their previous medical history using self-reported questionnaires at either one or three months post-injury?

• Does the adolescent have unmet mental health care needs, defined as not receiving any mental or behavior health care in patients with new or worsening anxiety or depression as defined by the self reported questionnaires?

Participants will be enrolled after being diagnosed in the emergency department (ED) with an mTBI. During the ED visit, the child's parent/caregiver and the adolescent will complete several questionnaires related to mental health which include tools to measure anxiety and depression. Participants will be asked to complete these questionnaires again at 1 month and 3 months post enrollment.

Clinical Trial Description

This is an observational, multicenter study to develop and validate a clinical tool to predict mental health problems in adolescents (after mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI).

The primary objective of the study is to develop and validate a clinical tool to predict which adolescents with mTBIs are at an increased risk for developing significant new or worsening mental health conditions. The investigators believe that at completion of this study they will have developed and validated a clinical prediction tool that will help clinicians define adolescents with mTBIs by risk of follow up mental health complications into low, moderate, and high-risk categories. This will provide clinicians with distinct risk categories on which make decisions about an adolescents care.

The investigators will also evaluate racial, ethnic, and social and economic differences in post-mTBI management across diverse populations of adolescents with mTBIs. The investigators believe that specific racial, ethnic, social, and economical characteristics will also be associated with unmet mental health needs in adolescents with mTBIs. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Brain Injuries
• Brain Injuries, Acute
• Brain Injuries, Traumatic
• Brain Injury Traumatic Mild
• Craniocerebral Trauma
• Diffuse Axonal Injury
• Head Injury
• Head Injury Trauma
• Hemorrhage
• Intracranial Hemorrhage, Traumatic
• Intracranial Hemorrhages
• Skull Fractures
• Unconsciousness
• Wounds and Injuries

• NCT number: NCT06370520
• Study type: Observational
• Source: University of California, Davis
• Contact: Daniel K Nishijima, MD, MAS
• Phone: 916-734-3884
• Email: dnishijima@ucdavis.edu
• Status: Recruiting
• Start date: May 22, 2024
• Completion date: December 2028