Teenagers After London Terrorist Attack

AVAL Cohort Study First Step, Observational Study, After One Year

• Context: Since March 2012, several terrorist attacks have been perpetrated in France (Toulouse, Montauban, Paris, Nice ...). In March 2017, 53 french teenagers were victims in a terrorist attack in London (Westminster Bridge).
• Main goal = to estimate the psycho-traumatic impact and to describe cares and management of high school students, victims of the terrorist attack in London on 2017, March the 22nd.
• 3 secondary objectives: 1) Clinical (occurrence of Post Traumatic Stress Disorders or other disorders); 2) Epidemiological (risk factors for developing disorders, avoiding care); 3) Preventive and therapeutic.

Inclusion criterion: 53 teenagers of Saint-Joseph high school (Concarneau, France) directly exposed to the terrorist attack.

Methodology: self questionnaires and heterogenous questionnaires; descriptive statistics (means +/- standard deviations; search for a significant difference according to traumatic symptomatology)

Inclusion Criteria:

• 53 teenagers, from Concarneau (France) high school, directly exposed from London terrorist attack (22.03.2017).

Exclusion Criteria:

• All persons not directly exposed;
• Relatives of teenagers;
• 3 physically injured teenagers.