Manage Your Workingnegative Thoughts Through Hypnosis

NCT ID: NCT06778109

Last Updated: 2025-05-28

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 26 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2025-02-06
• Study Completion Date: 2025-04-01

Brief Summary

Medical doctor generally are exposed to several risks and pressures, it is not a case that several meta-analyses have shown high stress and anxiety level in these workers. Stress management represents a very important topic. Being a doctor means dealing with continous effort and arousal management to provide the best treatment through executive functions capacity. This is particularly true for younger medical trainees; that have also to learn how to deal with failure and the curve of learning. Hypnosis has been shown to be very effective at modulating executive functions and sympathovagal balance, with large effect in post traumatic stress disease (PTSD), anxiety and executive function modulation. Therefore, this study aim to investigate if hypnosis could be beneficial among medical trainees for managing negative thoughts related to work.

Detailed Description

Stress and anxiety are very important issues in medical training. Several methods have been applied, from psychotherapy to biofeedback, but the physiological component usually have been dismissed. Training medical trainees to manage their physiological activity through hypnosis can probably transfer practical results, i.e. increased wellbeing, modulation of the working energy and the transfer from planning to properly execution. To obtain this results after a basal evaluation of physiological data (HR; Heart rate, HRV, Heart Rate Variability, EDA; Electrodermal activity, and SCr; Skin conductance responses) stress and of anxiety levels, , with PSS-10 scale, VAS stress, VAS anxiety and Tower of London test ( TOL-R), participants will recollect a negative memory for 3 minutes to monitor their response. After that a brief session of hypnosis will be performed with positive memories being recollected while all physiological data will be monitored. Then participants will be subjected again to the negative memory task end at the end of the session the same test of the basal evaluation will be carried out.

Conditions

Stress; Stress Disorders

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Hypnosis and negative memory

T0) basal evaluation of physiological data T1) evaluation of physiological data after recollecting a negative memory for 3 minutes T2) evaluation of physiological data after that a brief session of hypnosis (performed with positive memories) T3) evaluation of physiological data recolling, for the second time, the negative memory.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

hypnosis

Intervention Type: OTHER

T0) basal evaluation of physiological data T1) evaluation of physiological data after recollecting a negative memory for 3 minutes T2) evaluation of physiological data after that a brief session of hypnosis (performed with positive memories) T3) evaluation of physiological data recolling, for the second time, the negative memory.

Interventions

hypnosis

T0) basal evaluation of physiological data T1) evaluation of physiological data after recollecting a negative memory for 3 minutes T2) evaluation of physiological data after that a brief session of hypnosis (performed with positive memories) T3) evaluation of physiological data recolling, for the second time, the negative memory.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• age > 18 years old,
• being medical doctor or at first year of residency in Anesthesiology
• obtained written informed consent

Exclusion Criteria

• Neurological issues affecting stress responses
• Diabetes
• Cardiovascular conditions (i.e., hypertension, orthostatic hypotension etc)
• Being under psychiatric medications
• Psychological or psychiatric diseases

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University of Padova

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Annalisa Boscolo

Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Istituto di Anestesia e Rianimazione

Padua, Italy, Italy

University of Padova

Padua, PD, Italy

Countries

Italy

Other Identifiers

IPNOSIS

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id