Post-traumatic stress following MVA: screening and treatment effect

Project title

Post-traumatic stress following MVA: screening and treatment effect

Project manager

Tonny Elmose Andersen and Maj Hansen

Project description

Goal:
The present project seeks to investigate how to best screen for PTSD in pain patients exposed to traffic accidents (i.e. following the DSM-5 or the ICD-11 criteria), and investigate if and how PTSD affects treatment outcome.

Background:
Persistent pain and PTSD are common consequences of motor vehicle traffic accidents. Victims of traffic accidents with persistent pain are often screened for pain-related functional impairment and psychological disorders such as depression and anxiety but not PTSD, which means that victims of traffic accidents may have undetected and untreated PTSD symptoms.

At the same time, there does not exist any validated measurements of PTSD in pain-populations (neither according to the DSM-5 or the ICD-11 proposal).

Perspective:
At the national level, the project is expected to be of importance to all victims of traumatic events as screening tools for PTSD are validated in Danish.

Start date and expected end date

2017 - 2019

The project is carried out under

SPACE and THRIVE Research Groups

Collaborators

Pain Center South, Odense University Hospital

Funding

The Danish Victims Fund

Keywords

victims of traffic accidents, post-traumatic stress, MVA, screening, treatment effect, PTSD, motor vehicle traffic accidents