Clinical trial NCT04448405: Covid-19 Lockdown and Deviant Sexual Fantasies
Official title: Descriptive Study on the Impact of Covid-19 Lockdown on Deviant Sexual Fantasies
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Deviant Sexual Fantasies
Keywords: sexuality
Confinement
sex offender
outcome
paraphilia
cybersexuality
Lead sponsor: University Hospital, Montpellier
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2020-06-25
Enrollment: 100
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
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

Brief summary: 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.

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.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion criteria:

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

Exclusion criteria:

* no demance
* no decompensated psychatric disorder
* no tutelage

Primary outcomes:
measure: Impact of confinement on deviant fantasies
timeFrame: through study completion, an average of 1 year
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Intensity of deviant fantasies
timeFrame: through study completion, an average of 1 year
measure: Frequency of deviant fantasies
timeFrame: through study completion, an average of 1 year
measure: Paraphilic type impacted
timeFrame: through study completion, an average of 1 year
measure: Occurrence of sexual act
timeFrame: through study completion, an average of 1 year
measure: Access mode for deviant fantasies
timeFrame: through study completion, an average of 1 year
measure: Use of support during confinement
timeFrame: through study completion, an average of 1 year
measure: Evaluating anxiety/depression level
timeFrame: through study completion, an average of 1 year
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Montpellier
country: France
facility: Uhmontpellier
Study officials:
affiliation: University Hospital, Montpellier
name: Celine BAIS
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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