The effect of caloric vestibular stimulation on disordered self-related cognition following psychotrauma and forced migration.

Completed

• Conditions: mirror self-misidentification; the mirror sign; 10037176

• Registration Number: NL-OMON30144
• Lead Sponsor: De Gelderse Roos (Wolfheze)

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Last Update Posted: 18 June 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: Not specified
• Target Recruitment: 10

Inclusion Criteria

Sampling
The patients should be recruited from sufficiently stabilised inpatients from a psychiatric clinic for asylum seekers and refugees; in addition they should suffer from a psychogenic disorder in mirror self-recognition. The intervention should initially only be applied to patients with minor degrees of fear for mirrors and intact reality testing. If no adverse effects are observed, more severely affected patients could be included later.

Exclusion Criteria

Exclusion criteria
Although the aim of the study is to contribute to the development of therapeutic reprocessing without confrontation with traumatic memory, confrontation with a mirror is still unavoidable for the purpose of this study. Confrontation with a mirror typically induces fear in the study objects; they should therefore be sufficiently stabilised, and preferably still admitted in order to monitor them sufficiently after the experiment.
Patients with organic brain anomalies or injuries are excluded.

Prior to the intervention every patient will be otoscopically assessed by a physician to check if the eardrums are intact (perforation of the eardrum is an exclusion criterium) and to clear away excess earwax if necessary.
The physician will also establish the lateralisation of hand function in the patient (left- or righthandedness); left-handed patients are not excluded, but in their case the intervention is likely to be the control and vice versa.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified