Videomusic and Psychic Trauma (VIMUTRAU)

Phenomenological Crossing of the Psychic Trauma and Its Resolution. Imagination at the Heart of the Treatment: Video-music as a Metaphor for Psychological Trauma and Its Resolution.

This project is interested in the flow of consciousness and its modalizations during psychological trauma (post-traumatic stress disorder) and its resolution. It is based on the premise that in PTSD, consciousness becomes more rigid, less fluid, due to the memory always imposing itself on the consciousness. The resolution of the trauma and the subsequent reduction of anxiety might improve the fluidity of consciousness and thus lead to an overall improvement in the psychological state of PTSD patients. In cases of PTSD, music has been shown to reduce anxiety from the very first session and has a very positive effect on all PTSD symptoms.

In this project the following elements will be evaluated : on one hand, the changes in consciousness and its fluidity and, on the other hand, the evolution of anxiety following the listening of a new kind of work, videomusic (which associates a video scenario with music) exemplifying (metaphorizing) the trauma and its resolution.

Study Overview

• Status: Withdrawn
• Conditions: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Videomusic listening

• Study Type: Interventional
• Phase: Not Applicable

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

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

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Male or female at least 18 years of age
• Patients diagnosed with Simple Post Traumatic Stress according to DSM 5 criteria
• Patient able to express consent prior to participation in the study
• Patient affiliated to or beneficiary of a social security regimen

Exclusion Criteria:

• Other serious psychiatric pathologies
• Serious chronic pathologies, especially neurological ones
• Epilepsy
• Blindness or deafness
• Psychiatric decompensation
• Pregnant Women
• Patient under judicial protection (guardianship, curatorship...) or justice safeguard
• Any other reason that, in the opinion of the investigator, could interfere with study objective evaluation

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: TREATMENT
• Allocation: NA
• Interventional Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Masking: NONE

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
EXPERIMENTAL: Patients suffering from post traumatic stress disorder	Other: Videomusic listening; Patients will attend a 8 min videomusic session and questionnaires will be performed before and after this session.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Consciousness fluidity using a questionnaire dedicated to this measure	Consciousness fluidity will be assessed before and after videomusic listening from the scores obtained at a questionnaire Evaluating Qualitatively the Fluidity of Consciousness (EQFC). Minimum and maximum values are 1 for "Never" and 6 for "Always". For some items, 1 indicates a better outcome and for some it is the contrary.	4 weeks

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Qualitative analysis of experiential phenomenological interview	Experiential phenomenological interview will be analyzed according to qualitative analyze criteria (occurrence frequencies)	4 weeks
Salience-resonances method	Experiential phenomenological interview will be analyzed according to salience-resonance method	4 weeks
Patient anxiety	Patient anxiety level will be analyzed before and after videomusic listening thanks to State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) scale and scores obtained will be correlated with EQFC scores. For each item scores go from 1 to 4. For some of them 1 means "Not at all" and 4 "A lot" and for others it is the contrary. A global score superior to 65 indicates a high level of anxiety and a global score inferior or equal to 35 a very low level of anxiety.	4 weeks
Post traumatic stress disorder phenomenological definition	Principal component analysis will be performed to find potential correlations between population initial characteristics and improvement of consciousness fluidity after videomusic listening	4 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Toulon La Seyne sur Mer

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (ANTICIPATED): January 1, 2021
• Primary Completion (ANTICIPATED): July 1, 2021
• Study Completion (ANTICIPATED): July 1, 2021

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: November 25, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 10, 2020
• First Posted (ACTUAL): December 11, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ACTUAL): October 13, 2022
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 12, 2022
• Last Verified: October 1, 2022

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Anxiety; Music; Consciousness; Phenomenology; Psychic trauma; Videomusic
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Mental Disorders; Trauma and Stressor Related Disorders; Stress Disorders, Traumatic; Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
• Other Study ID Numbers: 2020-CHITS-07; 2020-A02649-30 (OTHER: Id-RCB)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

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

Drug and device information, study documents

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