Hypnosis as a Treatment of Chronic Widespread Pain in General Practice. A Pilot Study.

NCT ID: NCT00521807

Last Updated: 2008-10-20

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

18 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2001-03-31

Study Completion Date

2005-05-31

Brief Summary

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Objective: The study was performed to evaluate the effect of a standardized hypnosis treatment used in general practice for patients with chronic widespread pain (CWP).

Design: A randomized control group-controlled study. Setting and subjects: 16 patients were randomized into a treatment group or a control group, each constituting eight patients. Seven patients in the treatment group completed the schedule. After the control period, five of the patients in the control group also received treatment, making a total of 12 patients having completed the treatment sessions.

Intervention: The intervention group went through a standardized hypnosis treatment with ten consecutive therapeutic sessions once a week, each lasting for about 30 minutes, focusing on ego-strengthening, relaxation, releasing muscular tension and increasing self-efficacy.

Main outcome measures: A questionnaire was developed in order to calibrate the symptoms before and after the 10 weeks period, and the results were interpolated into a scale from 0 to 100, increasing numbers representing increasing suffering.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Chronic Widespread Pain

Keywords

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Hypnosis, Chronic widespread pain, CWP, General Practice

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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A 1

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

A 2

Treatment group

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Hypnosis

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

a standardized hypnosis treatment with ten consecutive therapeutic sessions once a week,

Interventions

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Hypnosis

a standardized hypnosis treatment with ten consecutive therapeutic sessions once a week,

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Chronic widespread pain for at least three months and at most five years.

Exclusion Criteria

* Patients having primarily other organic diseases or serious psychiatric disorders were excluded.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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University of Oslo

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Principal Investigators

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Jan R Grondahl, Dr

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

The Institute of General Practice and Community Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway.

Locations

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1) Institute of General Practice and Community Medicine, University of Oslo

Oslo, , Norway

Site Status

Countries

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Norway

References

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Grondahl JR, Rosvold EO. Hypnosis as a treatment of chronic widespread pain in general practice: a randomized controlled pilot trial. BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2008 Sep 18;9:124. doi: 10.1186/1471-2474-9-124.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 18801190 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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26035831907

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id