Evaluation of Acute Pain in Maltreated Children

Evaluation of Acute Pain in Maltreated Children : a Prospective, Multicentric and Controlled Study

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT00721682

Acronym

ANTALPED

Enrollment

Registered

2008-07-24

Start date

2008-11-30

Completion date

2013-04-30

Last updated

2013-10-24

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Conditions

Pain

Keywords

Pediatry, Ill-treatment, Pain, maltreated children

Brief summary

The hypothesis of this study is nonrecognition by the medical team of pain in maltreated children. These children would have a particular painful behaviour, quiet. The management of their pain would be then unsuited, which could explain their complex relation with the pain in the adulthood. A pilot study realized in the CHU of Nantes on 11 files of maltreated children showed that they had very low scores of evaluation of the pain, in spite of severe traumatisms. There is, at the moment, no data in the literature on the acute pain of the maltreated children.

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

CASE_CONTROL

Time perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

No minimum to 6 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Age between 0 and 6 years * Consultation in the emergency cares for traumatism with type of fracture and/or burn * Time of the traumatism lower than 24 hours * Information of the two parents or the parental authority and collection of the non-opposition.

Exclusion criteria

* Old superior at 6 years * Any type of traumatism other than a fracture and/or a burn * Traumatism without possible dating or with a time of consultation higher than 24 hours * Opposition of the parents formulated after their information by the medical team * Child who can not have an evaluation of the pain with the chosen scales

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
The principal judgement criterion is the proportion of children without recognized pain, measured with the rating scales validated in paediatrics, in T0, in the two populations of children (maltreated and others).	3 years

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Comparison of the quantitative scores of evaluation of the pain enters the two populations of children (maltreated and others)	3 years
Agreement between the evaluations of the pain made by the nursery nurses and those done by the doctors	3 years
Study of the correlation enters the managed painful treatments and the recommendations of painful treatment for each pathology.	3 years

Countries

France

Outcome results