NCT04768621

Health Consequences of Wintering in the French Southern and Antarctic Territories

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 232 (actual)
• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de la Réunion · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 99 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Polar stays expose people to extreme climate, isolation and confinement. The combination of these factors induces psychological disorders, sleep disorders, immune and endocrine disturbances, and deficiencies. In the TAAF, (French Southern and Antarctic Lands) two types of population coexist: winter residents, exposed to these stressors over long periods, and country people, who benefit from milder conditions and only make short stays. In this context, the investigators have decided to set up this cohort study with the objective of comparing the state of health of the winterers of the TAAF from 2012 to 2017 with that of the country people of the same period, before their stay, during and the year following their return.

Detailed description

Participants will answer to a questionnaire. This questionnaire will determinate participants health about following areas : psychological disorders, sleep disorders, immune and endocrine disturbances, and any deficiencies.

Conditions

• Environmental Exposure
• Winter Depression
• Endocrine System Diseases
• Sleep Disorder
• Immunologic Activity Alteration

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Questionary	Questions about patient health after wintering in Southern and Antarctic French Lands about social and demographics items, psychologic and psychiatric items, sleep disorders, immunological disorders,and endocrinologic disorders, sociological consequences of wintering

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-04-20
• Primary completion: 2021-06-19
• Completion: 2021-06-19
• First posted: 2021-02-24
• Last updated: 2023-09-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Reunion