NCT03931772

Online Automated Self-Hypnosis Program

Pilot Study Evaluating the Feasibility and Effects of an Innovative Automated Hypnosis Intervention for Smoking Cessation and Pain and Stress Reduction

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 152 (actual)
• Sponsor: Stanford University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

After developing professional quality materials (audio) for an affordable automated self-hypnosis intervention program for facilitating smoking cessation, stress and pain reduction, researchers aim to gain qualitative reviews of this program, and test its initial feasibility and effects on smoking cessation and reduction in pain and stress. In addition, this study seeks to determine whether higher hypnotizability, as measured by the Hypnotic Induction Profile (assessed at baseline), is a moderator of improved outcome in these conditions.

Detailed description

The investigators are interested in recruiting individuals who report that they smoke cigarettes daily and are motivated to make a serious attempt at quitting, and individuals who report experiencing pain or stress, who are willing to try to use the hypnosis intervention and provide feedback regarding their experience with the intervention. The original intervention is an interactive hypnosis tool, developed by Reveri Health, utilizing periodic questions and answers to personalize the session progression and emulate the conversational nature of an in-person session designed based upon decades of clinical hypnosis research and experience at the Stanford Center on Stress and Health. The intervention is delivered through the Amazon Alexa platform's beta testing tool. Participants will be provided with the Alexa Dot device, which is sold by Amazon and widely used by consumers. Later on, research participants will have the option of using an Alexa-supported smartphone device without the Alexa Dot speaker. Those enrolled later in the study will instead be offered the use of the interactive app also developed by Reveri (www.reveri.com) independent of the Alexa platform. What will be specific to this pilot is the hypnosis training approach, including the interactive nature of the program. The structure and the content of the hypnosis training program will be the same across the 3 mentioned modes of administration. The user interface for the app is the main difference.

Conditions

• Smoking
• Pain
• Stress

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Automated Self-Hypnosis	Self-Hypnosis will be delivered through an interactive application administered through Amazon Alexa or Reveri.com.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-09-05
• Primary completion: 2022-02-25
• Completion: 2022-02-25
• First posted: 2019-04-30
• Last updated: 2023-03-20

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States