NCT06038370

Self-induced Cognitive Trance for Chronic Pain Management

Self-induced Cognitive Trance to Improve Quality of Life of Patients With Chronic

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 6 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Liege · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The need to find complementary approaches, based on a holistic perspective of the human being, takes on its full meaning in a political context that recommends efficient health programs. Self-induced cognitive trance is one of these complementary approaches, which induce a non-ordinary state of consciousness. The aim of this work is to evaluate whether learning self-induced cognitive trance can improve the quality of life of people with chronic pain. Participants will participate in two times two days workshop aiming at learning how to self-induce cognitive trance. Pain, Fatigue, anxiety, depression, attitudes towards pain, and quality of life will be assessed before and after each workshops. Two follow-ups at 6 and 12 months afer the last workshop will be caried out were outomes will be assessed. Furthmore, questionnaires related to the phenomenology of self-induced cognitive trance will be adeministrered. Investigators also proceeded to interveiwes after the second workshop to gather qualitative information.

Conditions

• Chronic Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Self-induced cognitive trance	The cognitive trance-based intervention will consist of a two-day workshop in groups of approximately 10 participants, where they will learn how to induce the cognitive trance, with the use of different sound-loops that can induce trance in untrained people in a safe way. After two weeks of home practice, participants will redo a two-day consolidation training. At-home practice is encouraged between sessions.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-01-15
• Primary completion: 2024-02-10
• Completion: 2026-01-30
• First posted: 2023-09-14
• Last updated: 2023-09-14

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Belgium