Dolan.
| Methods | Randomisation: Allocation concealment: Unclear Exclusion after randomisation: | |
| Participants | Setting: Hospital trauma clinic Inclusion: those presenting with life‐threatening or near life‐threatening experiences e.g. RTA, assault, housefirem industrial accident. Exclusions: serious head injury, those too unwell to co‐operate, those with no memory of the trauma. Those injured through sports injury, self‐harm, DIY, fights or heavy alcohol intoxication at the time. | |
| Interventions | Comparison: Psychological Debriefing (Mitchell/Dyregrov model) versus initial assessment | |
| Outcomes | GHQ‐28 HADS IES The Neo‐5 Factor Personality Questionnaire The Defence Style Personality Questionnaire The Mast Abbreviated Injury Scale and the Injury Severity Score | |
| Notes | Unclear assessor blind to intervention: Intervention standardised | |
| Risk of bias | ||
| Bias | Authors' judgement | Support for judgement |
| Allocation concealment? | Unclear risk | B ‐ Unclear |