NCT04851626

Hypnotic Intervention for Women With Chronic Pelvic Pain

Hypnotic Intervention for Women With Chronic Pelvic Pain: a Pilot Randomised Control Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 14 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of South Australia · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 100 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Objective: To establish whether the pilot online hypnosis design was well received by women with persistent pelvic pain and worthy of a full randomised control trial To establish whether hypnosis improves mental health outcomes, including anxiety, depression, life impact and catastrophizing, in women with chronic pelvic pain conditions.

Detailed description

Design: Pilot Randomised Control Trial Methods: Twenty women with persistent pelvic pain completed assessment questionnaires and were recruited from a variety of social media sites related to persistent pelvic pain and randomly allocated to either control or hypnotic intervention groups. The intervention group completed a seven week online hypnotic intervention. The control group received no intervention. Both groups completed assessment and concluding questionnaires related to demographic information and the outcomes of interest. This included measures for anxiety, depression, pain, coping styles, pain related disability, pain catastrophizing and suggestibility. The results of the intervention and waitlist control groups were compared using linear mixed-effects modelling. Suggestibility was screened for at baseline using the Short Suggestibility Scale, and included in a secondary set of linear effects modelling.

Conditions

• Chronic Pain
• Pelvic Pain
• Psychological
• Hypnosis, Animal

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Hypnotic intervention for persistent pelvic pain.	Education about persistent pelvic pain followed by 7 recordings of hypnosis intervention across 7 weeks accessed online through recordings.
OTHER	Control group persistent pelvic pain no intervention.	Control group no hypnotic intervention. Waitlist control.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-11-02
• Primary completion: 2020-12-21
• Completion: 2020-12-21
• First posted: 2021-04-20
• Last updated: 2021-04-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Australia