Pregnancy Loss
Conditions
Keywords
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Pregnancy loss
Brief summary
In France The prevalence of Pregnancy Loss after 12 weeks of gestation is around 3%. This situation is probably associated to a risk of post-traumatic stress disorder. As a part of the medical staff midwives are often confronted with this situation, however they can have difficulties to identify short and long term effects of a post-traumatic stress disorders. The purpose of the present study is to estimate and analyze the prevalence of short-term (1 month) post-traumatic stress disorder in women with pregnancy loss after 12 weeks of gestation.The symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder will be tracked using the Impact of Event Scale-revisited and the Peritraumatic Dissociative Experiences Questionnaires.The diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder will also be clinically confirmed by a psychiatrist during a specific consultation.
Interventions
DIAGNOSTIC_TESTtelephone interview
questionnaire PDEQ et IES-R
Sponsors
University Hospital, Angers
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Intervention model description
Monocentric, prospective, epidemiological, descriptive and analytical study.
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
FEMALE
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* loss pregnancy after 12 weeks of gestation * consent to participate in the clinical study
Exclusion criteria
* no french speaking * psychiatric disease * participation in another clinical study
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Assessment of short-term post-traumatic stress disorder in women with fetal loss after 12 weeks of gestation with IES-R scale recorded at 30 days after fetal loss. | Telephone interviews are planned 30 days after fetal loss | Assessment of the Impact of Events Scale-Revised (IES-R) score wil be performed by telephone interview by the principal investigator of the present study. IES-R scale has been validated in 1997 (Weiss and Mar) and then validated in French in 2003 (Brunet and St Hilaire). This scale assesses the semi-retarded and retarded consequences of traumatic events. It consists in a 22 items questionnaire measuring symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), just after traumatic event and after a while. It is based on three main PTSD's elements: avoidance symptoms (items 8, 11, 12, 13, 17, 22), intrusion symptoms (items 1, 3, 5, 6, 9, 16) and hyperarousal (items 2, 4, 10, 14, 15, 18, 21).The patient has to respond using Likert's scale. score interpretations: 24-32: those with scores this high who do not have full PTSD will have partial PTSD. \>33 this represents the best cutoff for a probable diagnosis of PTSD |
Countries
France
Outcome results
None listed