Practice of Scuba Diving by as Many People as Possible: Effect of Medical Assessment to Provide a Suitable and Individualised Framework for Practice (Plongée Santé) (Healthy-diving)

Practice of Scuba Diving by as Many People as Possible: Effect of Medical Assessment to Provide a Suitable and Individualised Framework for Practice

The study focuses on the practice of recreational scuba diving by people who have obtained medical advice for their practice in the hyperbaric and underwater medicine department of the Brest University Hospital. These people may have no health problem or on the contrary consult because they have a pathology and want a medical advice on the impact of this health problem on their practice: this is the case for about the half of these consultants.

For the latter, there are no data concerning the relevance of a medical advice response and a proposal for an appropriate technical practice framework (restriction of dive depth, duration, etc.). A relevant answer results in a practice without diving accidents or decompensation of the pathology and a decision accepted and respected by the practitioner.

This study aims to analyze the state of health of the service's consultants and medical recommendations formulated at the end of this consultation, by retrospective analysis of the consultation files, and to interview the consultants on their practice of diving, their state of health and any problems encountered since their consultation.

The purpose is to validate the hypothesis that a practice of underwater diving is possible and beneficial, with an acceptable risk in case of a risk factor or pathology using a framework of advice and restrictions of adapted and individualized practice ("sport for health").

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Diving Barotrauma

Detailed Description

This is a single-center retrospective study on health data. The methodology includes a collection of data on health and practice of scuba diving, figuring on the medical consultation files and then carrying out a telephone interview of people seen in diving medicine consultation between 01/01/2015 and on 12/31/2018 in the hyperbaric and underwater medicine department of the Brest University hospital.

One month before the start of these interviews, an information letter on the study is sent by post, giving the possibility of opposing it.

The main evaluation criteria are the number of dives carried out since the consultation (and the average number of dives per year of practice), and the number of accidents or incidents during the practice of recreational scuba diving in the framework proposed, during the months or years following the medical consultation The secondary evaluation criteria are the evolution of the chronic pathology, the evolution of health status in general, the number of hours of practice of a physical and sport activity per week, the respect of the technical practice framework recommended.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 85

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• France
  • Brest, France, 29609
    • CHU de Brest

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: N/A

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

The population include new potential divers and confirmed divers who asked for a medical advice about their practice of diving.

About a half of this population have had a diving injury or has a chronic pathology.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• People who asked for a medical advice for the diving practice in a consultation in the hyperbaric and underwater medicine department of the Brest University hospital from 2015/01/01 to 2018/12/31

Exclusion Criteria:

• refusal

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
injury during diving practice since the consultation	type and number of diving injury	1 month

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
evolution of health status	qualitative scale : new pathology, worse, stable or better	1 month
evolution of the chronic pathology	qualitative scale : worse, stable, recurrence or remission	1 month
duration of physical or sport practice per week	in hours per week	1 month
medical recommendation respect	for each participant, comparison between the medical recommended practice framework and the actual practice declared; then percentage of participant that indicate following the medical recommendation	1 month
number of dives carried out since the consultation	average number per year of practice	1 month

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University Hospital, Brest
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Anne HENCKES, CHRU Brest

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): August 16, 2021
• Primary Completion (Actual): October 31, 2021
• Study Completion (Actual): November 15, 2021

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: November 8, 2021
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 14, 2024
• First Posted (Actual): August 15, 2024

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): August 15, 2024
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 14, 2024
• Last Verified: August 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: scuba diving; medical fitness; sport for health
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Wounds and Injuries; Barotrauma
• Other Study ID Numbers: 29BRC21.0226 - Healthy diving

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: YES
• IPD Plan Description: All collected data that underlie results in a publication
• IPD Sharing Time Frame: Data will be available beginning three months and ending five years following the publication
• IPD Sharing Access Criteria: Data access requests will be reviewed by the internal committee of Brest UH. Requestors will be required to sign and complete a data access agreement.
• IPD Sharing Supporting Information Type: STUDY_PROTOCOL

Drug and device information, study documents

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