Video Head Impulse Test and Seasickness Susceptibility

Sea Sickness Clinical Trial

Official title:

Video Head Impulse Test and Seasickness Susceptibility

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05657340
• Other study ID #: IDF-1873-2018
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 1, 2019
• Est. completion date: May 1, 2020

Study information

• Verified date: December 2022
• Source: Medical Corps, Israel Defense Force
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This a case control study on seasickness susceptibility. 86 healthy maritime personal were divided to seasickness susceptible and non susceptible groups based on a seasickness questionnaire (Golding) and motion sickness score.

All subjects from both groups underwent video head impulse testing (vHIT). VHIT parameters - gain, asymmetry ect were compared between both groups.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 86
• Est. completion date: May 1, 2020
• Est. primary completion date: May 1, 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 40 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• 18-40 healthy military naval subjects

• At least six month of active sailing.

Exclusion Criteria:

• A history of hearing loss

• Ear pathology observed at otoscopic examination

• A neck injury precluding head movement.

• Abnormal otoneurological examination findings

• Subject's withdrawal of informed consent.

• Failure to complete the video head impulse test.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Disease Susceptibility
• Motion Sickness
• Sea Sickness

Intervention

Diagnostic Test:
• Video-head impulse testing
Video-head impulse testing is a recent diagnostic bed-side test for evaluation of semi-circular canal function.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Israel	Israeli Naval Medical Institute	Haifa

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Medical Corps, Israel Defense Force

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Israel, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	vHIT gain	measurement of semicircular canal function	Immediate
Primary	paired semi-circular canal asymmetry	(|1st canal gain-2nd canal gain|)/(1st canal gain+2nd canal gain)	Immediate
Secondary	anterior semicircular canal gain o ipsilateral horizontal canal gain	anterior semicircular canal gain o ipsilateral horizontal canal gain	Immediate