After trauma or stress factor like death exposition, serious injuries or sexual violence, some patients may develop stress reaction characterized by the presence of various symptoms among different categories (reviviscence, negative humor, dissociates symptoms, occasion, hypervigilance). In the month following trauma, the investigators speak of acute stress reaction (ASR) when symptoms are present during at least three days. If symptoms are present one month after trauma, then it is a post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Among patients visiting emergency after latest trauma, quite a few is in acute stress reaction. However, this reaction is often incorrectly identified by healthcare team, due to lack of oriented medical examination, patients visiting about other complaints (pain, insomnia) and not expressing clearly the trauma context. Yet, it is know that acute stress reaction occurrence and existence of dissociate symptoms after trauma confrontation is considerably predictive of the eventual post-traumatic stress disorder occurrence. The identification of risk population of post-traumatic stress disorder is not the subject of any particular structured procedure in emergency services while early care of these patients may allow limiting post-traumatic stress disorder occurrence and associate consequences. Previous works on the subject having exclusively targeted some trauma subgroups or some predictive factors subtypes, investigators propose here biopsychosocial global approach that can weight the impact of each parameters. In this study, investigators aim at determining predictive biopsychosocial factors of the post-traumatic stress disorder occurrence at 3 months in patients visiting emergency after latest trauma (less than one month old) and identified as "high-risk" to develop post-traumatic stress disorder (moderate or high).
Age range
18 Years – 70 Years
Sex
ALL
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) occurrence
Timeframe: At 3 months following admission to the emergency service