NCT05611346

HYPNOsis in the Management of Atopic Dermatitis in Children and Teenagers

HYPNOsis in the Management of Atopic Dermatitis in Children and Teenagers : Study Protocol of a Pilot Randomized and Controlled Trial

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 32 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de la Réunion · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic inflammatory dermatosis, common in children. It causes pruritus and skin lesions that can have a significant impact on patients' quality of life. AD can be difficult to treat because of its chronicity, demanding local care, corticophobia and the financial cost of non-reimbursed products. Patients are often looking for therapeutic alternatives. Medical hypnosis is a therapeutic alternative via hypnoanalgesia induced by direct suggestions of comfort and skin soothing and via anxiolysis, by working on stress management and self-esteem reinforcement. Four studies are interested in its action in AD and seem to show a reduction in pruritus, skin pain, an improvement in the intensity of atopic dermatitis, sleep, mood and for some a cure of AD. These results are encouraging but limited by the absence of a control group or by the small population included. Therefore, we propose in a first step to evaluate the feasibility of an hypnosis program through a pilot study, designed in the miniature format of a future, larger scale, randomized controlled trial.

Conditions

• Dermatitis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Hypnosis	The experimental group will receive 2 standardized hypnosis sessions via the "superhero costume" technique performed during this collective therapeutic education program, completed by a reinforcement through the practice of self-hypnosis at home guided by the listening of an audio recording

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-08-13
• Primary completion: 2027-02-01
• Completion: 2027-12-01
• First posted: 2022-11-10
• Last updated: 2025-09-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Reunion