Training Nurses in Basic Hypnoanalgesia Techniques (HYPNO-DIS)

St. Justine's Hospital

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Cancer

Treatments: Procedure: training in hypnoanalgesia

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02421562

HYPNO-DIS

Details and patient eligibility

About

Demonstrate that a 4-day training session will allow nurses to master basic hypnoanalgesia techniques, and this new tool will translate into a reduction of procedural distress and pain in their patients, thereby opening the way to larger clinical trials in various pediatric settings.

Enrollment: 36 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• children followed in the hematology-oncology outpatient clinic at least 4 times per year
• good understanding in French
• use of topic anesthesia or distraction object allowed, as long as used at all venipuncture measured sessions

Exclusion criteria

• prior use of hypnoanalgesia
• patients coming for emergency or non-scheduled appointment
• patients with acute pain on their scheduled appointment to the clinic
• acute psychiatric disease

Trial design

36 participants in 1 patient group

training in hypnoanalgesia

Experimental group

Description:

training nurses in hypnoanalgesia to perform painful procedure in children

Treatment:

Procedure: training in hypnoanalgesia