Self-induced Cognitive Trance for Chronic Pain Management

University of Liege

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Chronic Pain

Treatments: Behavioral: Self-induced cognitive trance

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06038370

2015-85

Details and patient eligibility

About

The need to find complementary approaches, based on a holistic perspective of the human being, takes on its full meaning in a political context that recommends efficient health programs. Self-induced cognitive trance is one of these complementary approaches, which induce a non-ordinary state of consciousness. The aim of this work is to evaluate whether learning self-induced cognitive trance can improve the quality of life of people with chronic pain. Participants will participate in two times two days workshop aiming at learning how to self-induce cognitive trance. Pain, Fatigue, anxiety, depression, attitudes towards pain, and quality of life will be assessed before and after each workshops. Two follow-ups at 6 and 12 months afer the last workshop will be caried out were outomes will be assessed. Furthmore, questionnaires related to the phenomenology of self-induced cognitive trance will be adeministrered. Investigators also proceeded to interveiwes after the second workshop to gather qualitative information.

Enrollment: 6 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• French speacking
• Chronic pain
• On stable pharmacological treatment over the last four months

Exclusion criteria

• Psychiatric disorders,
• drug addiction
• alcoholism

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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6 participants in 1 patient group

Self-induced cognitive trance

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Self-induced cognitive trance