Clinical Hypnosis Before External Cephalic Version (ECV)

Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Hospital

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Breech Presentation at Term

Treatments: Other: Clinical hypnosis or neuro-linguistic programming

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01564004

12/11

Details and patient eligibility

About

Does clinical hypnosis or neuro-linguistic programming improve the success rate of external cephalic version?

Full description

Prospective off-center randomisation of clinical hypnosis or neuro-linguistic programming intervention prior to a external cephalic version treatment.

Enrollment: 716 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• singleton
• breech presentation
• gestation age above 36 weeks + 6 days

Exclusion criteria

• multiples
• cannot understand German language

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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716 participants in 2 patient groups

Clinical hypnosis

Experimental group

Description:

20 minutes tape recorded clinical hypnosis intervention

Treatment:

Other: Clinical hypnosis or neuro-linguistic programming

Neuro-linguistic programming

Active Comparator group

Description:

20 minutes tape recording of nouro-linguistic programming intervention

Treatment:

Other: Clinical hypnosis or neuro-linguistic programming