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Long-term Effect of Hypnosis in Spinal Cord Injury Patients

NCT03063333 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 7

Last updated 2019-12-12

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Summary

Coping-oriented hypnotic suggestions aimed at reducing pain catastrophizing was shown to reduce pain in people with chronic tension-type headache and experimental pain in healthy volunteers during hypnosis (Kjøgx et al., 2016). However, the duration of the effect on pain post-hypnosis is unknown.

The aim is to investigate the durational effect of a single session of coping-oriented hypnotic suggestions on chronic pain in patients with spinal cord injury. If effective for a longer period post-hypnosis, this form of hypnosis may provide an alternative to medicine or may be used in conjunction with lower medicine dosages.

Methods: 75 patients with spinal cord injury and pain is randomized into one of three conditions; coping-oriented hypnosis plus current treatment, neutral hypnosis plus current treatment or current treatment only. Pain intensity, coping strategies, pain catastrophizing, anxiety and depression is assessed before intervention and over a period of 14 days post-intervention.

Conditions

  • Spinal Cord Injuries

Interventions

OTHER

Coping-oriented hypnosis

Hypnosis using coping-oriented suggestions based on reversal of statements from the pain catastrophizing scale plus current treatment.

OTHER

Neutral hypnosis

Hypnosis using neutral suggestions plus current treatment

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Lone Knudsen, MSc Psych, PhD

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Helge Kasch, MD, PhD · Spinal Cord Injury Centre of Western Denmark

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-05-17
Primary Completion
2019-11-01
Completion
2019-11-01

Countries

  • Denmark

Study Locations

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