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Attachment and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Military Personnel: Characterization of the French Military Population, Exploration of Biopsychosocial Factors, and Study of the Impact of Security Priming on Emotional Contagion Capacities

— Observational Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Emotional Contagion

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What is being studied
This is an observational study: the protocol does not assign a study treatment.
Who it may be relevant to
Registry conditions: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Emotional Contagion. Basic parameters: 18 years — 65 years · All.
What needs checking
Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
Where it takes place
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Official title

Attachment and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Military Personnel: Characterisation of the French Military Population, Exploration of Biopsychosocial Factors and Study of the Impact of Reassuring Primers on Emotional Contagion Skills.

Overview

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a pathology that impairs the quality of life of sufferers. In military personnel, it can lead to military incapacity. This psychopathology is characterized by confrontation with one or more traumatic events in the individual's life history. Symptoms include cognitive and mood disorders, avoidance, hyperactivation (hypervigilance and anger) and intrusions (flashbacks and nightmares). Studies show that the prevalence of PTSD in military personnel fluctuates considerably from one situation to another (pre-deployment/post-deployment, etc.). In these at-risk populations, the often more complex PTSD clinic may also account for the heterogeneity of prevalences observed. Nevertheless, PTSD tends to become chronic in military personnel, making it particularly difficult to return to a "previous" state. In French casualties, beyond the symptoms already mentioned, complaints focus on difficulties in social interaction situations involving others in social life (attachment style to others) and in everyday life (public transport, supermarket shopping, social interactions, presence of crowds...). In the context of post-traumatic stress disorder, we would like to explore the processes of social cognition that enable people to interact in their environment, in relation to biological, psychosocial and physiological variables that may constitute risk or maintenance factors for the pathology.

Primary outcome measures

  • To characterize attachment styles within a military population by comparing a group of military personnel without PTSD (No-PTSD Group) with a group of military personnel with PTSD (PTSD Group). [Time frame: One visit study]

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria Common to Both Groups:

  • Volunteers who agreed to participate in the study and provided written consent
  • Affiliated with social security
  • Proficient in the French language

Inclusion Criteria Specific to the "Military Personnel with PTSD" Group:

  • Military personnel diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder related to their duties
  • Participants in activities offered by the wounded service support units

Exclusion criteria

  • Adults subject to a protective measure
  • Refusal to participate in the study
  • Unrectified Legionnaires

Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.

Healthy volunteers: Yes

Study design

Observational model
Case-control

Study locations

Center list to be confirmed — check the primary protocol.

Publications

  • Miquel A, Chan W, Rouquet C, Mison J, Jolly M, Coutan M, Ferhani O, Trousselard M, Duffaud AM. Attachment and post-traumatic stress disorder in french military personnel: characterization and exploration of biopsychosocial factors - the at-home study protocol. MethodsX. 2026 Apr 22;16:103924. doi: 10.1016/j.mex.2026.103924. eCollection 2026 Jun. PMID 42100750

Identifiers

NCT: NCT06996275 · 2024PBMD03 · 2025-A00068-41

Primary sources (government registries)

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