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NCT Number: NCT01960738

Common Recreational Diving Practices: A Randomized Control Trial Using Pre-Dive Checklist

To evaluate the efficacy of using a pre-dive checklist to prevent the incidence of diving mishaps in recreational divers.

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Key information

Conditions

Injuries Wounds and Injuries

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Sunset House, George Town, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands

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Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Over 18 years of age
  • Having a valid Diver Certification
  • Deemed fit by the Dive operator to dive on the day of participation
  • Planning to dive on the day of participation
  • Have basic knowledge of English

Exclusion criteria

  • Anyone not meeting all of the inclusion criteria
  • A diver who did not answer the outcomes questionnaire was later excluded

Treatment and study plan

A pre-dive checklist

Other

The pre-dive checklist included a checklist of tasks to be undertaken before the dive, a dive-plan that asked the diver to plan the depth, and amount of gas kept at different levels of diving, and 4 dive tips.

Primary outcomes

  1. Mishaps

    Time frame: One day

    Mishaps were reported by scuba divers themselves, at the end of their diving day (the day they were enrolled). Mishaps are precursors of injuries. Injuries are less common outcomes (in fact, nobody got injured), hence we used mishaps - which allowed us to test the efficacy of pre-dive checklists, and do so with limited resources.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Major mishaps

    Time frame: One day

    Major mishaps are a type of mishaps

  2. Minor Mishaps

    Time frame: One day

    Minor mishaps are a type of mishaps

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Divers Alert Network

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Registry information

Official study title

A Group Randomized Trial to Evaluate the Efficacy of Using Pre-dive Checklist to Prevent the Incidence of Recreational Scuba Diving Mishaps

Acronym: Checklists

Important dates

Study start
2012
Primary completion
2012
Study completion
2012
First posted
Oct 11, 2013
Registry last updated
Oct 11, 2013

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