Description Module
The Description Module contains narrative descriptions of the clinical trial, including a brief summary and detailed description. These descriptions provide important information about the study's purpose, methodology, and key details in language accessible to both researchers and the general public.
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Description Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-24 @ 6:28 PM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-24 @ 6:28 PM
NCT ID:
NCT02648568
Brief Summary:
The aim of the study is to compare the benefit of two cognitive therapies in severe sleepwalking/ sleep terrors: relaxation vs. relaxation plus hypnosis. This is a monocentric, double-blind controlled study. 75 patients (aged more than 15 yo) with severe sleepwalking (defined as at least one epsidoe per week and at least two awakenings in stage N3 on video polysomngraphy) will be included. All patients will have a visit 1 for diagnosis including a medical interview, a video polysomnography, questionnaires on sleepwalking (PADSS and systematized interview), sleep quality (PSQI, MEQ) and sleepiness (Epworth scale) and suggestibility scale. 25 patients will be randomized to the relaxation group, 25 patients to the hypnosis plus relaxation group, while the 25 non-randomized patients will be non-treated controls. Randomized patients will receive the therapy on day 1, and be monitored during the subsequent night. They will have a weekly therapy for 4 additional sessions and be monitored again on Month 1, as well as they will complete the sleep and sleepwalking questionnaires. They will also complete the questionnaire by phone on Month 3. The non-randomized controls will complete the questionnaire on month 1, with no therapeutical intervention between Day 1 and Month 1. The main outcome will be the frequency of sleepwalking episodes, as assessed by the PADSS-B. Secondary outcomes include the changes in other subitems of teh PADSS, of the N3 awakenings in v-PSG between night 1 and Night 2 (short term effect) and Night 1 and Night 28 (long term effect), as well as changes in sleep quality and sleepiness scales. A comparison of spectral EEG, as well as respiration, eye movements, muscle tone and heart rate during rest, hypnosis trance, relaxation and sleepwalking episodes is also scheduled.
Detailed Description:
Extended description of the protocol, including more technical information (as compared to the Brief Summary) if desired. Do not include the entire protocol; do not duplicate information recorded in other data elements, such as eligibility criteria or outcome measures
Study:
NCT02648568
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT02648568