Review of the international hypnosis literature

Abstract

This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated the use of hypnosis, music, and hypnosis with music to help terminally ill individuals with their pain, anxiety, sleep, and well-being. Randomized Controlled Trials and non-randomized studies with a pre-post design that described their protocol were used. A total of 11 studies (5 RCT), with a total of 579 participants met the inclusion criteria. Analysis of the pre-post design studies indicated promising results for pain, anxiety, sleep, and well-being. The meta-analysis of RCT showed a significant decrease in pain (effect size −0.42), but there were not enough studies (4) for an analysis of the effects on other variables of interest. It is of note that this effect was largely driven by one study that combined hypnosis and music. Several studies had difficulty recruiting and retaining participants. The authors suggest that research and interventions involving the terminally ill, should pay particular attention to the duration of the intervention and the length of the sessions. Further research is needed to better understand the how to optimize these favorable benefits. The use of hypnosis and music during palliative care has minimal risk or side effects, and the potential to improve life quality. Address for reprints: Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Université Montréal, Québec, The authors present a review of the evidence for various forms of psychosocial interventions to help patients with dental anxiety. Patients can present with mild to severe forms of dental anxiety that not only make treating them more difficult but also stop some patients from seeking treatment that they may urgently need. The authors identified a number of promising interventions such as hypnosis, relaxation, biofeedback, and psychotherapy that have demonstrated some evidence for their efficacy with patients who have difficulties with dental anxiety. The authors aimed to quantify the efficacy of using hypnosis for pain in adults with chronic musculoskeletal pain and/or neuropathic pain. In this systematic review and meta-analysis, Randomized Control Trials that used hypnosis and/or self-hypnosis to manage pain, and severe inflammatory response with blisters leading to additional skin and eye damage, as well as damage to the lungs in some cases. Burn patients with Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis suffer from additional trauma in their recovery and it is commonly thought by medical providers that they also suffer from difficulties with self-esteem, depression, anxiety, and PTSD. The authors wished to see if any research had reported successful results with psychotherapy for burn patients with Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis, given the severe quality of life problems that these patients face in their recovery. The authors were unable to find even one quantitative or qualitative study examining the use of any form of psychotherapy for the treatment of these burn patients with Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis. However, they did find seventeen studies which examined the use of psychotherapy for the treatment of burn patients with quality-of-life issues like depres-sion, anxiety, and PTSD. The authors concluded that many of these interventions did appear to show some promise for follow-up studies with better methodology. The use of cognitive behavior therapy with hypnosis was one such intervention that they identified as showing promise as a therapeutic form of psychotherapy. Department of and Limerick, individual pediatric irritable functional abdominal This is an interesting follow-up study to an experiment that compared hypnosis for irritable bowel syndrome and abdominal pain administered via standardized psychotherapy of a survey-based study asking healthcare workers about their experiences coping with the stresses associated with caring for patients during catastrophic events such as the Covid19 The study was conducted the with a variety of medical care providers during the summer 2021. Previously, Geneva University Hospital had implemented a variety of interventions to help hospital employees with a variety of stress reduction interventions as sessions hypnosis, sessions with a psychologist, psychiatric consults, and a 24-hour hotline care