Trauma Exposure and Care Placement on Child Mental Health
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Understanding the interaction between exposure type and care placement arrangement on the mental health of children who have experienced complex trauma
IRAS ID
336400
Contact name
Jala Rizeq
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
Duration of Study in the UK
1 years, 11 months, 30 days
Research summary
Children who experience trauma (situations that physically and/or emotionally hurt them) are at risk for developing emotional and behavioural problems and difficulties. This can include mental health problems, like post traumatic stress disorder or anxiety, relationship difficulties, and challenging behaviours.
This association may depend on different and multiple factors. This may include whether the trauma takes place within or outside the family, or the specific types of trauma a child experiences (for example, sexual abuse versus bullying). Further, emotional and behavioural problems after trauma may differ depending on whether the young person remains at home or is placed in out-of-home care following the trauma. In this study, we are wanting to investigate these relationships, and the extent to which they might interact together in impacting a child's emotional and behavioural problems after trauma.
We will be extracting routine health data from health records of children and young people attending an NHS Child Trauma Service. Patients are aged between 4 and 18 years old, and are referred to this service due to having experienced trauma, and are experiencing emotional and behavioural difficulties related to this. Patients will only be excluded from this research project if there is not information about their emotional and behavioural problems and the type of trauma they experienced, in their health records.
This study will use information which is collected as a part of their routine clinical assessment with the service. We will not be recruiting participants specifically to take part in this study, and we will not ask them to do any additional activities. Information that may identify participants will be anonymised when it is taken from patient files (it will be made un-identifiable).
REC name
West of Scotland REC 4
REC reference
24/WS/0008
Date of REC Opinion
8 Feb 2024
REC opinion
Unfavourable Opinion