Is There a Desensitization During Sleep After Exposure to a Violent Verbal Input ? (COREV)

National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Verbal Abuse

Treatments: Behavioral: Watching Video-clip 2; Behavioral: Watching Video-clip 1

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03074578

COREV (Other Identifier)

16009

Details and patient eligibility

About

There is a need for quantify the emotional and neurophysiological perception of verbal violence, in order to understand the impact it might have on a subject. This project aims at assessing the influence of time, sleep, and people interaction on the perception of verbal violence.

Full description

There are many processes involved in the perception of verbal violence. There is a need for quantified data to have a better understanding the physiological and neurological perception of verbal violence, in order to understand the impact it might have on a subject. This project aims at assessing the influence of time, sleep, and people interaction on the perception of verbal violence. The "cognitive replay" will also be assessed through dreams. The investigators think that sleep plays a role in desensitization to negative emotions and to memory consolidation. However, the role of sleep in verbal violence remains unknown.

Enrollment: 32 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 25 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Subject fully understands French
• Subject willing to consent to the study and signed the written consent
• Subject is afiliated to the Freanch national health care system (Sécurité Sociale)
• Subject level of education superior to "Brevet des collèges" (an equivalent would be the general certificate of secondary education)

Exclusion criteria

• The subject is not able to understand the protocol
• The subject has a language disorder
• The subject has a psychiatric or neurological disorders
• The subject does not use psychotropic drugs
• The subject has watched the advertidement : "stop djihadisme", broadcasted on television by the french government

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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32 participants in 2 patient groups

Night-time desensitization

Experimental group

Description:

Watching a video containing verbal and visual violence in the evening, and again in the next morning

Treatment:

Behavioral: Watching Video-clip 1

Behavioral: Watching Video-clip 2

Daytime desensitization

Sham Comparator group

Description:

Watching a video containing verbal and visual non-violence in the morning, and then again the evening of the same day

Treatment:

Behavioral: Watching Video-clip 1

Behavioral: Watching Video-clip 2