NCT06338579

Overview of Self-medication Among French Navy Personnel

Overview and Determinants of Self-medication Among Personnel Deployed on French Navy Surface Ships

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 800 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Direction Centrale du Service de Santé des Armées · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this cross-sectional descriptive observational study is to assess the extent of self-medication among the crews of surface ships at the Toulon naval base. This study could include healthy volunteers, or participants with well-controlled chronic pathologies enabling them to be fit for embarkation, who are currently being deployed for at least 4 weeks on a surface ship at the naval base. Participants will tick and complete a questionnaire (between 15 and 30 minutes) after 4 consecutive weeks on the ship.

Conditions

• Self Medication

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Questionnaire	A questionnaire is distributed and self-administered 4 weeks before the start of an embarked mission on a surface ship at the Toulon naval base, during an embarked mission of at least 4 weeks. The questionnaire consists of 2 parts: * A section on socio-demographic characteristics * A section on self-medication practices during this deployment

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-04-01
• Primary completion: 2026-03-01
• Completion: 2026-04-01
• First posted: 2024-03-29
• Last updated: 2024-03-29