The aim of this trial is to compare and evaluate the effects of hypnosis in cancer patients, to reduce the level of pain, anxiety and depression. The comparison was made through the scores on the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS).
Volunteers cancer patients of both gender, aged between 40 and 70 years, susceptible to hypnosis, with pain scores ≥ 3 measured by Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), will be randomized into two groups of 12 participants each. They might or might not present metastasis, whether or not performed cancer surgery, regardless of the location of the primary tumor, with or without concomitant surgical indication. It will be used the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) at 3 different times: at baseline, after 7 days and after 2 weeks of the first assessment. It will be done, in the hypnosis group, an hypnosis intervention. It consists of two 40-minute sessions, with an interval of 7 days between them, emphasizing the pain blocking, the well-being of the patient and the reduction of the symptoms of anxiety and depression. Then, it will be evaluated the intensity of the pain as well as depression and anxiety in both groups. Finally, the results of both groups will be compared.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
24
The hypnosis intervention consists of two 40-minute sessions, with an interval of 7 days between them, emphasizing the pain blocking, the well-being of the patient and the reduction of the symptoms of anxiety and depression of the same.
The control and experimental groups respond in 3 different moments to Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) for the evaluation of pain, and to Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) to evaluate depression and the anxiety. The first meeting will be made before the hypnosis. In the second meeting, within an interval of 7 days, the scales will be applied in all patients. Before applying the scales, the hypnosis group will be submitted to the session. The third meeting will occur two weeks later, where the scales will be only applied to compare the groups.
UNB- Universidade de Brasilia
Brasília, Federal District, Brazil
Change of Pain Score in the Visual Analogue Scale
Comparison was made through the scores in the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) to measure the effect of hypnosis in pain among the 12 patients of the hypnosis group comparing to the 11 patients of the control group. The scale ranged from 0 to 10 points, without subscales. The better outcome occurs when the mean of the second or the third week decrease 3 points comparing with the first week, or when the mean of the third week decrease 3 points comparing with the second week.
Time frame: The study was done with each patient in the first three consecutive weeks after randomization
Change of Anxiety and Depression in the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)
Comparison was made through the scores in the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) to measure the effect of hypnosis in anxiety and depression among the 12 patients of the hypnosis group comparing to the 11 patients of the control group. The scale has 14 items, seven of which are directed to the evaluation of anxiety (HADS-A) and seven to depression (HADS-D). Each item can be scored from zero to three, establishing a score range of 0 to 21 points for each subscale. The better outcome occurs when the mean is lower or equal to 9 for each subscale. The subscales are independent for each result of depression and anxiety.
Time frame: The study was done with each patient in the first three consecutive weeks after randomization
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