Hypnosis as a Treatment of Chronic Widespread Pain in General Practice. A Pilot Study.

University of Oslo

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Widespread Pain

Treatments: Procedure: Hypnosis

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00521807

26035831907

Details and patient eligibility

About

Objective: The study was performed to evaluate the effect of a standardized hypnosis treatment used in general practice for patients with chronic widespread pain (CWP).

Design: A randomized control group-controlled study. Setting and subjects: 16 patients were randomized into a treatment group or a control group, each constituting eight patients. Seven patients in the treatment group completed the schedule. After the control period, five of the patients in the control group also received treatment, making a total of 12 patients having completed the treatment sessions.

Intervention: The intervention group went through a standardized hypnosis treatment with ten consecutive therapeutic sessions once a week, each lasting for about 30 minutes, focusing on ego-strengthening, relaxation, releasing muscular tension and increasing self-efficacy.

Main outcome measures: A questionnaire was developed in order to calibrate the symptoms before and after the 10 weeks period, and the results were interpolated into a scale from 0 to 100, increasing numbers representing increasing suffering.

Enrollment: 18 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Chronic widespread pain for at least three months and at most five years.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients having primarily other organic diseases or serious psychiatric disorders were excluded.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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18 participants in 2 patient groups

A 1

No Intervention group

A 2

Experimental group

Description:

Treatment group

Treatment:

Procedure: Hypnosis