Influence of Perioperative Hypnotherapy on Postoperative Improvement in Cognitive Performance

NCT ID: NCT01523938

Last Updated: 2016-08-10

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

TERMINATED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

72 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2012-03-31

Study Completion Date

2016-07-31

Brief Summary

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The study examines prospects of hypnotherapy in reducing agitation in patients after cardiac or spinal column surgery. A particular aim is to point out the effects on postoperative cognitive outcome. Additional blood and urine tests are conducted (concerning cardiac stratum).

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Hypnotherapy

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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Hypnotherapy

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Hypnotherapy

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Pre- (one session) and postoperative (two sessions) Hypnotherapy

No Hypnotherapy

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Hypnotherapy

Pre- (one session) and postoperative (two sessions) Hypnotherapy

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Patients aged 18 years and older
* Patients scheduled for open heart surgery or spinal column surgery
* Offered patient information and written informed consent
* Mini Mental State \> 23
* American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status classification system (ASA) 1-3

Exclusion Criteria

* No informed consent
* Patients aged \<18 years
* Patients living outside Berlin/Potsdam and surrounding area
* Less than 5 points in Stanford Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility: Form C; German version (SHSS:C -Weitzenhoffer \& Hilgard, 1962; Bongartz, 1999 a)in the screening/recruiting phase
* Lacking consent capability or accommodation in an institution due to an official or judicial order
* Emergency patients or ambulant patients
* Pregnancy and lactation
* Coworkers at Charité
* Lacking willingness to save and hand out data within the study
* Insufficient knowledge of the German language
* Participation in another trial according to the German Drug Law the week before inclusion (in the study) and the parallel participation in another trial according to the German Drug Law within the first 3 months after surgery
* Acute, severe psychic disease (acute psychotic disorder, severe drug dependency, withdrawal symptoms)
* Conditions which make a sufficient information and consequent consent impossible
* The patient is under juridical supervision
* acute risk of suicide
* dementia
* patients who suffer from insulin dependent Diabetes mellitus and who have been diagnosed with Diabetes mellitus within the last year
* patients who have suffered allergic shock in the past
* hardness of hearing, deafness, blindness
* cardiac function: ejection fraction (EF) \< 30%
* Patients undergoing psychotherapeutic treatment
* Patients taking awareness-modulating drugs (antipsychotic drugs)
* Boozed/primed patients or patients under drug influence
* Patients having had an epileptic seizure within the last four weeks
* Patients suffering from productive cough
* Patients having a chronic low blood pressure (systolic \<90mmHg)
* Allergies to any ingredient of the electrode fixing material (only for participants of sleep stage assessment)
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Charite University, Berlin, Germany

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Claudia Spies

Prof., MD Director of the Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine CVK/CCM

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Claudia Spies, MD Prof.

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Campus Virchow-Klinikum (CVK) and Campus Charite Mitte (CCM), Charite - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Locations

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Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Campus Virchow-Klinikum (CVK) and Campus Charite Mitte (CCM), Charite - Universitätsmedizin

Berlin, State of Berlin, Germany

Site Status

Countries

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Germany

Other Identifiers

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HYPNOC

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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