Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
N/A
Study information
Scientific title
Acronym
Study hypothesis
Hypnosis and auto-hypnosis do not reduce pain in patients with chronic pain
Ethics approval
Not provided at time of registration
Study design
Randomised controlled trial
Primary study design
Interventional
Secondary study design
Randomised controlled trial
Trial setting
Not specified
Trial type
Treatment
Patient information sheet
Condition
Various conditions engendering chronic pain
Intervention
Hypnosis and auto-hypnosis administered and taught by trained nurses
Intervention type
Other
Phase
Not Specified
Drug names
Primary outcome measure
Level of pain (VAS)
Secondary outcome measures
1. Physical activity (tridimensional accelerometer)
2. Health related quality of life (SF-36)
Overall trial start date
01/05/1993
Overall trial end date
31/12/1994
Reason abandoned (if study stopped)
Eligibility
Participant inclusion criteria
1. To be referred (including occasional self-referral) for the management of chronic pain
2. To live within manageable distances from the hospital
3. To be aged 18 or above
4. To understand and speak French adequately
5. To be able to see, hear and communicate (i.e. no alteration of consciousness)
6. To have no diagnosis of mental illness (e.g. psychosis)
7. To give informed consent
Participant type
Patient
Age group
Adult
Gender
Both
Target number of participants
2 x 65 = 130
Participant exclusion criteria
Patients were excluded from the study whenever they wished and/or when no conventional treatment could be proposed.
Recruitment start date
01/05/1993
Recruitment end date
31/12/1994
Locations
Countries of recruitment
Switzerland
Trial participating centre
IUMSP
Lausanne
CH-1010
Switzerland
Funders
Funder type
Government
Funder name
Swiss National Science Foundation (Switzerland) (SNF 4034-35883)
Alternative name(s)
Swiss National Science Foundation, Fonds National Suisse de la Recherche Scientifique, Fondo Nazionale Svizzero per la Ricerca Scientifica, Fonds National Suisse, Fondo Nazionale Svizzero, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds, SNF, SNSF, FNS
Funding Body Type
private sector organisation
Funding Body Subtype
Trusts, charities, foundations (both public and private)
Location
Switzerland
Results and Publications
Publication and dissemination plan
Not provided at time of registration
Intention to publish date
Participant level data
Not provided at time of registration
Basic results (scientific)
Publication list
1994 protocol in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8073244
Publication citations
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Protocol
Buchser E, Burnand B, Sprunger AL, Clémence A, Lepage C, Martin Y, Chédel D, Guex P, Sloutskis D, Rumley R, Hypnosis and self-hypnosis, administered and taught by nurses, for the reduction of chronic pain: a controlled clinical trial., Schweiz Med Wochenschr Suppl, 1994, 62, 77-81.