Symptom Assessment in Adolescents Placed on Child Welfare

University Hospital, Strasbourg, France200 enrolled

Overview

This study aims to characterize emotional dysregulation in complex post-traumatic stress disorder (cPTSD) and to determine the extent to which it can promote the distinction with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). As emotional dysregulation is a dynamic process whose phenomenological manifestations are labile, associated with physiological modifications and modulated by cognitive processing, a multiple methodology associating measurements in a real-life ecological context with measurements performed in the hospital will be preferred. Overall, this study proposes to capture, for the first time, the clinical manifestations associated with cPTSD from the perspective of emotional dysregulation and its underlying processes

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

200

Conditions

Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD)Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 12 YearsMax age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Adolescent aged 12 to 17 * Entrusted to ASE Bas-Rhin. * Fluent in French * Affiliated with a social health insurance scheme * Agreeing to take part in the study * Legal representative of the minor or his/her guardian, or his/her representative from the ASE agreeing to take part in the study. Exclusion Criteria: * Adolescent refusing to participate in the study * Legal representative of the minor or his/her guardian, or his/her ASE representative refusing to participate in the study * Adolescent with severe developmental delay * Adolescent participating in another research study * Adolescent deprived of liberty by judicial or administrative decision

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) according to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) criteria

PTSD will be assessed according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) diagnostic criteria, using the Child Post-Traumatic Checklist (CPC-P). The outcome will be the proportion of participants meeting DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for PTSD.

Time frame: From inclusion to the end (6 months)

Prevalence of complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) according to International Classification of Diseases, 11th Revision (ICD-11) criteria

Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD) will be assessed according to the International Classification of Diseases, 11th Revision (ICD-11) diagnostic criteria, using the Child and Adolescent Trauma Screen (CATS). The outcome will be the proportion of participants meeting ICD-11 diagnostic criteria for CPTSD.

Time frame: From inclusion to 6 months