Common Recreational Diving Practices: A Randomized Control Trial Using Pre-Dive Checklist (Checklists)

Divers Alert Network

Status: Completed

Conditions: Injuries

Treatments: Other: A pre-dive checklist

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: NETWORK

Identifiers

NCT01960738

DAN009-12

Details and patient eligibility

About

To evaluate the efficacy of using a pre-dive checklist to prevent the incidence of diving mishaps in recreational divers.

Enrollment: 1,116 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Over 18 years of age
• Having a valid Diver Certification
• Deemed fit by the Dive operator to dive on the day of participation
• Planning to dive on the day of participation
• Have basic knowledge of English

Exclusion criteria

• Anyone not meeting all of the inclusion criteria
• A diver who did not answer the outcomes questionnaire was later excluded

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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1,116 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention group received a pre-dive checklist and a post-dive log

Treatment:

Other: A pre-dive checklist

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group received the post-dive log only.