Training Nurses in Basic Hypnoanalgesia Techniques

Cancer Clinical Trial

— HYPNO-DIS  

Official title:

Training Nurses in Basic Hypnoanalgesia Techniques to Reduce Procedural Distress and Pain in Children: a Pilot Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02421562
• Other study ID #: HYPNO-DIS
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: April 12, 2015
• Last updated: April 15, 2015
• Start date: February 2015
• Est. completion date: June 2016

Study information

• Verified date: April 2015
• Source: St. Justine's Hospital
• Contact: Terry Mizrahi, MD
• Phone: +1 514 345 4931
• Email: terry.mizrahi[@]gmail.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Canada: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Demonstrate that a 4-day training session will allow nurses to master basic hypnoanalgesia techniques, and this new tool will translate into a reduction of procedural distress and pain in their patients, thereby opening the way to larger clinical trials in various pediatric settings.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 36
• Est. completion date: June 2016
• Est. primary completion date: June 2016
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 5 Years to 18 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• children followed in the hematology-oncology outpatient clinic at least 4 times per year

• good understanding in French

• use of topic anesthesia or distraction object allowed, as long as used at all venipuncture measured sessions

Exclusion Criteria:

• prior use of hypnoanalgesia

• patients coming for emergency or non-scheduled appointment

• patients with acute pain on their scheduled appointment to the clinic

• acute psychiatric disease

Study Design

Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Cancer

Intervention

Procedure:
• training in hypnoanalgesia
training nurses in hypnoanalgesia techniques to perform painful procedures in children followed in the outpatient hematology oncology clinic

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Canada	Ste-Justine Hospital	Montreal	Quebec

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
St. Justine's Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Canada, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Practice performance of pediatric nurses after a 4-day training in hypnonalgesia techniques. Practice performance will be evaluated by two external evaluators on videotapes using a standardized scale.		12 months	No
Secondary	Main secondary outcome measure : self-reported distress (fear) on VAS (visual analog scale).		12 months	No
Secondary	Distress evaluated with the Faces, Legs, Activity, Cry, Consolability scale by two external evaluators on video recordings.		12 months	No