Validating the New Remote Hypnotic Induction Profile (rHIP)

Stanford University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Testing the Hypnotizability of Healthy Volunteers

Treatments: Other: Hypnotizability testing

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04058483

51970

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is to determine if hypnotizability can be reliably tested over the phone, without having to see or touch a patient. The scores from a new test for hypnotizability by phone will be compared to the scores from a standard in-person test, to make sure the results are similar.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• At least 18 years old.
• Able to schedule a 15 minute in-person and phone appointment within a week of each other, during the study period.

Exclusion criteria

• Severe psychiatric or structural brain disease (ie. psychosis, stroke with functional impairment, dementia)
• Has had prior hypnotizability testing using the HIP or enrolled in another hypnosis-related trial.
• hearing impairment that would preclude phone interviewing
• non-English speakers

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

HIP First

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants randomized to perform the in-person hypnotizability test first. This will be followed within 1 week with the by-phone rHIP test performed by a second, randomly-assigned investigator.

Treatment:

Other: Hypnotizability testing

rHIP First

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants randomized to perform the by-phone hypnotizability test first. This will be followed within 1 week with the in-peron HIP test performed by a second, randomly-assigned investigator.

Treatment:

Other: Hypnotizability testing