Can we predict who will develop PTSD after trauma?
NCT ID NCT03615014
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study aimed to find factors that can predict whether someone will develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after a traumatic event like a serious injury or violence. Researchers followed 460 adults who came to the emergency room within a month of trauma and were at moderate or high risk for PTSD. They used questionnaires to check for PTSD three months later, hoping to improve early identification and care.
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Study facts
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- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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460 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Feb 2019
- Finished
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Oct 2019
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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Who can take part
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- Ages
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18 to 70 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
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Inclusion Criteria: * Man or woman aged between 18 and 70 * Admitted in an emergency service after a trauma less than one month old, defined by death exposition or death threat, serious injury or sexual violence, by one or several of the following; * Being directly exposed ; * Being direct witness of traumatic event that occurred to other people; * Hearing that traumatic event arrived to close family member or close friend. In the case of death penalty or death threat of a family member or a friend, events must have been violent or accidental. * Being exposed repeatedly or extremely to aversive characteristics of trauma events (for example: first line actors gathering human remains, cops exposed several times to kid sexual abuse explicit fact). * Written informed-consent * Affiliation to the French social security scheme or beneficiary of a similar scheme Exclusion Criteria: * Patient not understanding French language * Patient under guardianship * Clinical instability making impossible the realization of questionnaires (for example: agitation, vital risk, disorders of consciousness…)
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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CH St Joseph St Luc - Urgences Psychiatriques et Médecine d'urgence
Lyon, 69007, France
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CHU Clermont - Hôpital G Montpied - Urgences Psychiatriques et Médecine d'urgence
Clermont-Ferrand, 63000, France
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CHU St Etienne - Hôpital Nord - Urgences Psychiatriques
Saint-Priest-en-Jarez, 42270, France
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Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud - Urgences psychiatriques
Pierre-Bénite, 69310, France
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Hôpital Edouard Herriot - Urgences Psychiatrique et Médecine d'urgence
Lyon, 69432, France
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