Video Head Impulse Test and Seasickness Susceptibility

Medical Corps, Israel Defense Force

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sea Sickness

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Video-head impulse testing

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05657340

IDF-1873-2018

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 86 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 40 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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86 participants in 2 patient groups

seasickness susceptible

Experimental group

Description:

43 seasickness susceptible maritime crewmembers underwent video-head impulse test

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Video-head impulse testing

seasickness non-susceptible

Other group

Description:

43 seasickness non-susceptible maritime crewmembers underwent video-head impulse test

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: Video-head impulse testing