Covid-19 Lockdown and Deviant Sexual Fantasies

Deviant Sexual Fantasies Clinical Trial

Official title:

Descriptive Study on the Impact of Covid-19 Lockdown on Deviant Sexual Fantasies

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04448405
• Other study ID #: RECHMPL20_0341
• Status: Completed
• Start date: June 18, 2020
• Est. completion date: October 30, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: December 2020
• Source: University Hospital, Montpellier
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Our society is going through an unprecedented situation: the COVID 19 Pandemic is forcing many populations, worldwide, into confinement for their own protection. The very characteristics of this confinement and of the disease (isolation, potential severity of the illness, being psychologically unprepared for such a circumstance) have a significant impact on one's psyche, like emotional disorders -anxiety/depression-, difficulties when returning to normal life, vicarious traumas… Confinement is paradoxical in as although well-intended to protect the individual, it leads to the isolation of the individual. This paradox is destabilizing one's feelings, because when the investigators feel the need for protection and reassurance, the investigators are left alone and feel abandoned. The investigators therefore understand that this confinement framework is in essence a situation that might revive unresolved deprivation situations from the childhood. How to react in front of this upsurge in anxiety? Strategies used may include, among others, escape in the imaginary through numerical tools or others, and /or going to the actual characterized by deviant sexual behaviours. The investigators know in fact that certain moments, like anxiety, depression, boredom, psychological unrest are propicious for acting, for violent sexual offenders. The investigators therefore pay extra attention to our patients in such periods favoring these kinds of trouble.

This study will enable us to understand if the confinement associated with COVID 19 has generated anxiety that lead sexual offenders or individuals with paraphilic disorders to engage into deviant fantasies or, potentially sexual activities.

Description:

The questionnaire is handed only one time to each patient and the questions it contains are part of those commonly used.

How do the investigators precisely operate: self questionnaire on paper, handed to each patient followed by the CRIAVS in the waiting room, and returned by the patient to the therapist, or the department, in a sealed envelope. Digital data collection thereafter.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 100
• Est. completion date: October 30, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: October 1, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria:

• Adults

• Consulting at the CRIAVS between June and end October 2020

Exclusion criteria:

• no demance

• no decompensated psychatric disorder

• no tutelage

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Deviant Sexual Fantasies

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Questionnaire for evaluation of confinement on deviant sexual fantasies
Questionnaire for evaluation of confinement on deviant sexual fantasies. Population already followed for deviant fantasies

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	Uhmontpellier	Montpellier

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University Hospital, Montpellier

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Impact of confinement on deviant fantasies	Lickert scale from 1 to 10	through study completion, an average of 1 year
Secondary	Intensity of deviant fantasies	Likert scale from 0 to 10	through study completion, an average of 1 year
Secondary	Frequency of deviant fantasies	Likert scale from 0 to 10	through study completion, an average of 1 year
Secondary	Paraphilic type impacted	Box to be chacked by the patient: exhibition, voyeurism, pedophilia, sadomasochism, crossdressing, raptophilia	through study completion, an average of 1 year
Secondary	Occurrence of sexual act	Number given by the patient	through study completion, an average of 1 year
Secondary	Access mode for deviant fantasies	Did you use internet : yes or no	through study completion, an average of 1 year
Secondary	Use of support during confinement	box yes or no Was support different? Did you use remote consultation? How did you like it?	through study completion, an average of 1 year
Secondary	Evaluating anxiety/depression level	HAD Hospital Anxiety And Depression Scale The HAD scale is an instrument for detecting anxiety and depressive disorders. It has 14 listed items from 0 to 3. Seven questions relate to anxiety (total A) and seven others to the depressive dimension (total D), two scores are obtained (maximum score for each score = 21). - 7 or less: absence of symptoms; - 8 to 10: doubtful symptomatology - 11 and more: certain symptomatology.	through study completion, an average of 1 year