Benefits of Diving Training on Recovery for Veterans Suffering of Chronic PTSD: an Exploratory Study

Stress Disorder, Combat Clinical Trial

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Official title:

Evaluation of the Impact of Diving Training on Recovery in a Cohort of Veterans Suffering of PTSD: an Exploratory Clinical Control Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03995992
• Other study ID #: IRBA
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: February 8, 2020
• Est. completion date: December 30, 2022

Study information

• Verified date: August 2022
• Source: Institut de Recherche Biomedicale des Armees
• Contact: Marion Trousselard
• Phone: +33644066637
• Email: marion.trousselard[@]gmail.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Patients suffering from Chronic Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) have difficulties in executive cognition that hinder their quality of life and make it difficult to recovery and to reintegrate them socially and professionally. These difficulties are particularly important for soldiers suffering from chronic PTSD. The literature suggests that diving may be a complementary approach to improving cognition, in addition to its benefits on the quality of life of patients with chronic PTSD. It appears to be an intervention of interest to improve the successful recovery for veterans with PTSD compared to a multi-sport practice.

Description:

A French military rehabilitation program proposes the broadening of the relationships between recovery and reintegration by incorporating approaches in the field of positive psychology for soldiers with chronic PTSD. This program was organized for a group of 10 veterans for 10 days. Each morning, from 9 am to 12 pm, participants had sporting activities: mountain walking, mountain biking, climbing, canyoning and collective orienteering running. From 3 pm, they had individual and collective practical workshops based on PTSD psychoeducation, human resources competences and coaching, including a curriculum vitae workshop. The investigators aims to compare this program included multisport practice with the same praogram included diving instead of multi-sport to evaluate the impact to recovery at one year

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 60
• Est. completion date: December 30, 2022
• Est. primary completion date: November 28, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: N/A and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• veterans
• having a chronic PTSD evaluated by a psychiatrist All soldiers included in this study were on sick leave for at least 6 months due to chronic PTSD and were waiting for a military invalidity committee pension. They were all engaged in the first step of the Omega project and had a nine-day HRT training session planned

Exclusion Criteria:

• the psychiatrist did not consider the clinical state appropriate enough to take part in the omega project

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Combat Disorders
• Stress Disorder, Combat

Intervention

Behavioral:
• sport
10 days of sport (diving or multisport), once training per day

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	Marion	Brétigny-sur-Orge	Not In US/Canada
France	anne-sophie Pellen	Paris	Not In US/Canada

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Institut de Recherche Biomedicale des Armees

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	inflammatory level	salivary cytokines	two times points ; change were assessed between before and after the sport training (eg. before and 10 days after)
Primary	status of professional reinsertion (having a job or not)	Rate of professional reinsertion	one year after the intervention (sport training)
Secondary	PTSD symptoms	self-report scale: the post-traumatic checklist 5 (PCL5) threshold=33	two times points ; change were assessed between before and after the sport training (eg. before and 10 days after)
Secondary	cognitive symptoms	self report scale: the Montreal Cognive Assessment (MOCA) threshold=27	two times points ; change were assessed between before and after the sport training (eg. before and 10 days after)