Covid-19 Lockdown and Deviant Sexual Fantasies

Descriptive Study on the Impact of Covid-19 Lockdown on Deviant Sexual Fantasies

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.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Deviant Sexual Fantasies
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Questionnaire for evaluation of confinement on deviant sexual fantasies

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.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 100

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• France
  • Montpellier, France, 34295
    • Uhmontpellier

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

Patients followed by the CRIAVS (resource center for workers working with authors of sexual violence) in CHU Motpellier from June to October 2020

Description

Inclusion criteria:

• Adults
• Consulting at the CRIAVS between June and end October 2020

Exclusion criteria:

• no demance
• no decompensated psychatric disorder
• no tutelage

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Observational Models: Cohort
• Time Perspectives: Prospective

Number of groups / cohorts

1

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort	Intervention / Treatment
Patients followed by the CRIAVS; Patients followed by the CRIAVS (resource center for workers working with authors of sexual violence) in CHU Motpellier from June to October 2020	Behavioral: Questionnaire for evaluation of confinement on deviant sexual fantasies; Questionnaire for evaluation of confinement on deviant sexual fantasies. Population already followed for deviant fantasies

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Impact of confinement on deviant fantasies	Lickert scale from 1 to 10	through study completion, an average of 1 year

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Intensity of deviant fantasies	Likert scale from 0 to 10	through study completion, an average of 1 year
Frequency of deviant fantasies	Likert scale from 0 to 10	through study completion, an average of 1 year
Paraphilic type impacted	Box to be chacked by the patient: exhibition, voyeurism, pedophilia, sadomasochism, crossdressing, raptophilia	through study completion, an average of 1 year
Occurrence of sexual act	Number given by the patient	through study completion, an average of 1 year
Access mode for deviant fantasies	Did you use internet : yes or no	through study completion, an average of 1 year
Use of support during confinement	box yes or no Was support different? Did you use remote consultation? How did you like it?	through study completion, an average of 1 year
Evaluating anxiety/depression level	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.	through study completion, an average of 1 year

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University Hospital, Montpellier
• Investigators: Study Director: Celine BAIS, University Hospital, Montpellier

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): June 18, 2020
• Primary Completion (Actual): October 1, 2020
• Study Completion (Actual): October 30, 2020

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: June 19, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 24, 2020
• First Posted (Actual): June 25, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): December 29, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 28, 2020
• Last Verified: December 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: outcome; Confinement; sexuality; sex offender; paraphilia; cybersexuality
• Other Study ID Numbers: RECHMPL20_0341

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: Undecided
• IPD Plan Description: NC

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No