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Covid-19 Lockdown and Deviant Sexual Fantasies

Completed
Conditions
Deviant Sexual Fantasies
Interventions
Behavioral: Questionnaire for evaluation of confinement on deviant sexual fantasies
Registration Number
NCT04448405
Lead Sponsor
University Hospital, Montpellier
Brief Summary

Our society is going through an unprecedented situation: the COVID 19 Pandemic is forcing many populations, worldwide, into confinement for their own protection. The very characteristics of this confinement and of the disease (isolation, potential severity of the illness, being psychologically unprepared for such a circumstance) have a significant impact on one's psyche, like emotional disorders -anxiety/depression-, difficulties when returning to normal life, vicarious traumas... Confinement is paradoxical in as although well-intended to protect the individual, it leads to the isolation of the individual. This paradox is destabilizing one's feelings, because when the investigators feel the need for protection and reassurance, the investigators are left alone and feel abandoned. The investigators therefore understand that this confinement framework is in essence a situation that might revive unresolved deprivation situations from the childhood. How to react in front of this upsurge in anxiety? Strategies used may include, among others, escape in the imaginary through numerical tools or others, and /or going to the actual characterized by deviant sexual behaviours. The investigators know in fact that certain moments, like anxiety, depression, boredom, psychological unrest are propicious for acting, for violent sexual offenders. The investigators therefore pay extra attention to our patients in such periods favoring these kinds of trouble.

This study will enable us to understand if the confinement associated with COVID 19 has generated anxiety that lead sexual offenders or individuals with paraphilic disorders to engage into deviant fantasies or, potentially sexual activities.

Detailed Description

The questionnaire is handed only one time to each patient and the questions it contains are part of those commonly used.

How do the investigators precisely operate: self questionnaire on paper, handed to each patient followed by the CRIAVS in the waiting room, and returned by the patient to the therapist, or the department, in a sealed envelope. Digital data collection thereafter.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
100
Inclusion Criteria

Not provided

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Study Design
Not specified
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Patients followed by the CRIAVSQuestionnaire for evaluation of confinement on deviant sexual fantasiesPatients followed by the CRIAVS (resource center for workers working with authors of sexual violence) in CHU Motpellier from June to October 2020
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Impact of confinement on deviant fantasiesthrough study completion, an average of 1 year

Lickert scale from 1 to 10

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Frequency of deviant fantasiesthrough study completion, an average of 1 year

Likert scale from 0 to 10

Intensity of deviant fantasiesthrough study completion, an average of 1 year

Likert scale from 0 to 10

Paraphilic type impactedthrough study completion, an average of 1 year

Box to be chacked by the patient: exhibition, voyeurism, pedophilia, sadomasochism, crossdressing, raptophilia

Occurrence of sexual actthrough study completion, an average of 1 year

Number given by the patient

Access mode for deviant fantasiesthrough study completion, an average of 1 year

Did you use internet : yes or no

Use of support during confinementthrough study completion, an average of 1 year

box yes or no Was support different? Did you use remote consultation? How did you like it?

Evaluating anxiety/depression levelthrough study completion, an average of 1 year

HAD Hospital Anxiety And Depression Scale The HAD scale is an instrument for detecting anxiety and depressive disorders. It has 14 listed items from 0 to 3. Seven questions relate to anxiety (total A) and seven others to the depressive dimension (total D), two scores are obtained (maximum score for each score = 21). - 7 or less: absence of symptoms

- 8 to 10: doubtful symptomatology - 11 and more: certain symptomatology.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Uhmontpellier

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Montpellier, France

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