Diving for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) (Dive-Hope)

Marion Trousselard

Status: Completed

Conditions: Ptsd

Treatments: Behavioral: sport practice

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03332290

2017-002436-16

Details and patient eligibility

About

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

Enrollment: 36 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• ptsd

Exclusion criteria

• mindfulness practice

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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36 participants in 2 patient groups

sport training

Active Comparator group

Description:

training course lasting 10 days. It included 10 days of multisports practice once (2h) per day.

Treatment:

Behavioral: sport practice

diving

Experimental group

Description:

diving course lasting 10 days. It included 10 days of diving once (2h) per day. Diving will be carried out using air at a maximum depth of 30-meters

Treatment:

Behavioral: sport practice