Impairment of the Cognitive Flow in the Development of a Depressive Disorder and Suicidal Ideas (AQUARIUM)

The study consists in estimating the mental load (cognitive saturation) and the production of driving cognition to suicidal patients.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Suicide
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Follow-up of the suicidal patients

Detailed Description

The study consists in testing two big general hypotheses:

• In the first place, that suicidals presents a mental load (cognitive saturation) and an activity pain behaviour of their space of the thought by extremely painful peripheral cognitive movements (impression that the brain is saturated of thoughts, turbulences, internal movements)
• Secondly, that suicidals produces a surplus of representations of action, such takes out that their vision of the world is saturated of a not integrable kinaesthetic imaging by the subject.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 67

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• France
  • Val d'Oise
    • Pontoise, Val d'Oise, France, 95300
      • CH René Dubos

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years and older (ADULT, OLDER_ADULT)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Suicidal patients followed at the Hospital Rene Dubos

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients followed within the framework of an ambulatory follow-up post-emergencies(post-urgent matters).
• Knowledge of the French language
• patient who have signed of the form of consent,
• patient presenting one anxio-depressive disorder(confusion) with or without suicidal episode.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Not compatible health with the signing of the protocol,
• the not knowledge of the French language,
• patient who have refused the protocol.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Number of groups / cohorts

1

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort	Intervention / Treatment
Suicidal patients; No intervention. Follow-up of the suicidal patients	Behavioral: Follow-up of the suicidal patients; No intervention. Follow-up of the suicidal patients

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Mental load (calm or turbulence of the spirit) - test of the aquarium	To assess the calm or the turbulence of the spirit of the participant, the investigator will make him take the test of the aquarium. The participant will perform an exercise to assess the load and movement of his thoughts. The participant must imagine that the aquarium reflects the content of his mind. The fish are the thoughts and the waves represent the turbulences and movements of all these thoughts. Some subjects, for example, play about with the size of the fish ("it is only a single large fish, but it takes over my entire head"), the shape of the fish ("these fish are pointed because they are bad"), scrawl (the participant scrawled on the aquarium to say that his head was overrun), the projection of feelings ("those fish there are sad") or made digressive but interesting comments ("the wavy lines carry away the fish...").	5 days

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Moral pain - Analog Visual Scale Battery	In order to evaluate the participant's moral pain, the investigator proposes to answer the questions of a test titled Analog Visual Scale Battery. It is in the form of a horizontal bar with left a peaceful state (mental pain not strong at all...) and conversely, on the right are the opposite feelings corresponding to a moral pain (very strong mental pain). The participant is asked to check on the bar the level that most seems to reflect his feelings or impressions related to his moral pain.	5 days
Suicidal thoughts - Analog Visual Scale Battery	In order to evaluate the participant's situation, the investigator proposes to answer the questions of a test titled Analog Visual Scale Battery. It is in the form of a horizontal bar with left a peaceful state (example: calm thoughts, slight suicidal ideation ...) and conversely, on the right are the opposite feelings corresponding to a tormented state (example: many thoughts, suicidal ideation ...). The participant is asked to check on the bar the level that most seems to reflect his feelings or impressions related to his suicidal ideation.	5 days

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier René Dubos
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: BAUDOIN Thierry, PH, Rene Dubos Hospital

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: May 1, 2015
• Primary Completion (ACTUAL): September 1, 2015
• Study Completion (ACTUAL): September 1, 2015

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: September 13, 2016
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 14, 2018
• First Posted (ACTUAL): September 17, 2018

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ACTUAL): September 17, 2018
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 14, 2018
• Last Verified: September 1, 2018

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: suicidal patients;psychiatry
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Behavioral Symptoms; Mental Disorders; Mood Disorders; Self-Injurious Behavior; Depressive Disorder; Suicide
• Other Study ID Numbers: CHRD1515

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO