Overview of Self-medication Among French Navy Personnel

Not yet recruiting

• Conditions: Self Medication

• Registration Number: NCT06338579
• Lead Sponsor: Direction Centrale du Service de Santé des Armées

Brief Summary

The goal of this cross-sectional descriptive observational study is to assess the extent of self-medication among the crews of surface ships at the Toulon naval base. This study could include healthy volunteers, or participants with well-controlled chronic pathologies enabling them to be fit for embarkation, who are currently being deployed for at least 4 weeks on a surface ship at the naval base.

Participants will tick and complete a questionnaire (between 15 and 30 minutes) after 4 consecutive weeks on the ship.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2024-03
• Study First Submitted: 2024-03-21
• Study First Submitted QC: 2024-03-28
• Last Update Submitted: 2024-03-28
• Study First Posted: 2024-03-29
• Last Update Posted: 2024-03-29
• Study Start: 2024-04
• Primary Completion: 2026-03
• Study Completion: 2026-04

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 800

Inclusion Criteria

• French military personnel;
• age > 18;
• embarked on a French navy vessel from the naval base;
• for a minimum 4-week mission;
• covered by social security.

Exclusion Criteria

• Refusal to participate,
• Legionnaire
• Military Health Services member

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
percentage of patients who have self-medication	up to 4 weeks	Percentage of patients who have self-medicated at least once since the start of their current mission, among respondents working on surface ships at the naval base on missions lasting more than 4 weeks (excluding malaria prophylaxis, contraception and treatment of a chronic pathology prescribed by a doctor)