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

Chronic Widespread Pain Clinical Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00521807
• Other study ID #: 26035831907
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: August 27, 2007
• Last updated: October 17, 2008
• Start date: March 2001
• Est. completion date: May 2005

Study information

• Verified date: August 2007
• Source: University of Oslo
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Norway: The Committee for Medical Research Ethics.
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 18
• Est. completion date: May 2005
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

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.

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Chronic Pain
• Chronic Widespread Pain

Intervention

Procedure:
• Hypnosis
a standardized hypnosis treatment with ten consecutive therapeutic sessions once a week,

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Norway	1) Institute of General Practice and Community Medicine, University of Oslo	Oslo

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Oslo

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Norway,