Long-term Effect of Hypnosis in Spinal Cord Injury Patients
- Conditions
- Spinal Cord Injuries
- Registration Number
- NCT03063333
- Lead Sponsor
- Lone Knudsen, MSc Psych, PhD
- Brief 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.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- TERMINATED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 7
- Spinal cord injury (tetraplegia or paraplegia) with some preservation of hand functioning
- Baseline pain level of ≥ 3 on a Numeric Rating Scale (NRS; 0-10 where 10 is extremely severe pain)
- Pain duration of at least 8 weeks.
- Severe mental or psychiatric illness
- Substance abuse (drugs, alcohol or medicine)
- Lack of ability to cooperate during the experiment
- Severe high cervical lesions
- Severe autonomic dysautonomia
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Pain intensity For 14 days post-intervention NRS (0-10)
Coping For 14 days post-intervention Coping strategies questionnaire
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Pain catastrophizing For 14 days post-intervention Pain catastrophizing scale
Pain impact on mood, sleep and daily activities For 14 days post-intervention NRS (0-10)
Global impression of change For 14 days post-intervention Global impression of change scale
Anxiety For 14 days post-intervention Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale
Depression For 14 days post-intervention Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Spinal Cord Injury Centre of Western Denmark
🇩🇰Viborg, Denmark
Spinal Cord Injury Centre of Western Denmark🇩🇰Viborg, Denmark