Contact information
Type
Scientific
Primary contact
Prof Peter Whorwell
ORCID ID
Contact details
Wythenshawe Hospital
Manchester
M23 9LT
United Kingdom
+44 (0)1612915813
peter.whorwell@smuht.nwest.nhs.uk
Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
RDO/22/33
Study information
Scientific title
Acronym
Study hypothesis
To assess whether hypnotherapy has a role in the treatment of non cardiac chest 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
Non cardiac chest pain
Intervention
Patients will be randomised to receive either:
1. 12 sessions of Hypnotherapy
or:
2. 12 sessions of supportive listening of equal duration to hypnotherapy plus placebo medication
Intervention type
Other
Phase
Not Specified
Drug names
Primary outcome measures
Subjective global assessment of relief of symptoms compared with pre-trial status.
Secondary outcome measures
To determine whether hypnotherapy improves frequency, severity and duration of non cardiac chest pain, as well as quality of life and psychological status (visual analogue scales).
Overall trial start date
01/01/2002
Overall trial end date
01/09/2005
Reason abandoned
Eligibility
Participant inclusion criteria
Patients with angina-like chest pain who have been shown to have normal coronary arteries and have no other co-existent disease.
Participant type
Patient
Age group
Adult
Gender
Both
Target number of participants
50 patients
Participant exclusion criteria
1.Patients with proven coronary artery disease
2.Patients with oesophageal reflux disease
Recruitment start date
01/01/2002
Recruitment end date
01/09/2005
Locations
Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
Trial participating centre
Wythenshawe Hospital
Manchester
M23 9LT
United Kingdom
Sponsor information
Organisation
Department of Health (UK)
Sponsor details
Institute for Public Health Research and Policy
University of Salford
Humphrey Booth House
Hulme Place
The Crescent
Salford
M5 6QA
United Kingdom
+44 (0)1612952802
s.m.riley@salford.ac.uk
Sponsor type
Hospital/treatment centre
Website
Funders
Funder type
Government
Funder name
Department of Health (UK) - NHS Exec Biomedical Funding Scheme (ref: RDO/22/33)
Alternative name(s)
Funding Body Type
Funding Body Subtype
Location
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
Results - basic reporting
Publication summary
1. 2006 results in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16627548
2. 2007 resullts in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17938446
Publication citations
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Results
Jones H, Cooper P, Miller V, Brooks N, Whorwell PJ, Treatment of non-cardiac chest pain: a controlled trial of hypnotherapy., Gut, 2006, 55, 10, 1403-1408, doi: 10.1136/gut.2005.086694.
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Resullts
Miller V, Jones H, Whorwell PJ, Hypnotherapy for non-cardiac chest pain: long-term follow-up., Gut, 2007, 56, 11, 1643, doi: 10.1136/gut.2007.132621.