NCT02105740

Hypnosis in Pain Management, Anxiety and Depression in Oncological Patients

Hypnosis as a Complementary Practice in Pain Management, Anxiety and Depression in Oncological Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 24 (actual)
• Sponsor: Gil Montenegro · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 40 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of this trial is to compare and evaluate the effects of hypnosis in cancer patients, to reduce the level of pain, anxiety and depression. The comparison was made through the scores on the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS).

Detailed description

Volunteers cancer patients of both gender, aged between 40 and 70 years, susceptible to hypnosis, with pain scores ≥ 3 measured by Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), will be randomized into two groups of 12 participants each. They might or might not present metastasis, whether or not performed cancer surgery, regardless of the location of the primary tumor, with or without concomitant surgical indication. It will be used the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) at 3 different times: at baseline, after 7 days and after 2 weeks of the first assessment. It will be done, in the hypnosis group, an hypnosis intervention. It consists of two 40-minute sessions, with an interval of 7 days between them, emphasizing the pain blocking, the well-being of the patient and the reduction of the symptoms of anxiety and depression. Then, it will be evaluated the intensity of the pain as well as depression and anxiety in both groups. Finally, the results of both groups will be compared.

Conditions

• Pain
• Depression Anxiety Disorder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Hypnosis	The hypnosis intervention consists of two 40-minute sessions, with an interval of 7 days between them, emphasizing the pain blocking, the well-being of the patient and the reduction of the symptoms of anxiety and depression of the same.
BEHAVIORAL	Control	The control and experimental groups respond in 3 different moments to Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) for the evaluation of pain, and to Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) to evaluate depression and the anxiety. The first meeting will be made before the hypnosis. In the second meeting, within an interval of 7 days, the scales will be applied in all patients. Before applying the scales, the hypnosis group will be submitted to the session. The third meeting will occur two weeks later, where the scales will be only applied to compare the groups.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-07-01
• Primary completion: 2016-05-01
• Completion: 2016-05-01
• First posted: 2014-04-07
• Last updated: 2017-03-30
• Results posted: 2017-03-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil