Diving for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Ptsd Clinical Trial

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Official title:

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): Benefits of Diving Practice on Patient Quality of Life

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03332290
• Other study ID #: 2017-002436-16
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: October 10, 2017
• Est. completion date: February 26, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: January 2019
• Source: Institut de Recherche Biomedicale des Armees
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

within the components of Scuba diving there are similarities with meditation and mindfulness techniques. PTSD and emotion dysregulation are known to be involved by meditation training This study evaluates the benefits of scuba diving on quality of life and mindful functioning comparing the benefits of diving training using a clinical trial protocol

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 36
• Est. completion date: February 26, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: December 30, 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• ptsd

Exclusion Criteria:

• mindfulness practice

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Ptsd
• Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
• Stress Disorders, Traumatic

Intervention

Behavioral:
• sport practice
the intervention was a training course lasting 10 days. It included 10 days of sports practice. For divers, diving was carried out using air at a maximum depth of 40-meters, with a maximum of one dives a day. For the multisport group (the non-divers), the course included kayaking, mountain climbing or hiking with a maximum of two activities a day.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	Marion Trousselard	Brétigny-sur-Orge	Not In US/Canada

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Marion Trousselard

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	quality of life (Mental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF))	four times (baseline, after the course, 1month after the course and 3months after the course)	changes from baseline (after the course minus baseline), (1month after the course minus baseline) and (3months after the course minus baseline)
Secondary	post-traumatic checklist scale; a 20-item self-report scale assessing the 20 DSM-5 symptoms of PTSD with a symptom severity from 0 to 80 and a cut-point score of 33.	four times (baseline, after the course, 1month after the course and 3months after the course)	changes from baseline (after the course minus baseline), (1month after the course minus baseline) and (3months after the course minus baseline
Secondary	heart rate variability on morning	four times (baseline, after the course, one month after the course and 3 months after the course)	changes from baseline (after the course minus baseline), (1month after the course minus baseline) and (3months after the course minus baseline