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Conditions
Brief summary
A Variety of research suggests that hypnosis can be used successfully to treat acute pain (Patterson and Jensen, 2003; Wright and Drummond, 2001). Specifically, it has been demonstrated that hypnosis can reduce the intensity of pain experienced by patients with burn injuries during treatment (Wright and Drummond, 2000). Hypnosis also appears to have unique effects above and beyond other pain management treatments, such as opioid analgesics and relaxation training (Patterson, 2010). Despite this, it appears that hospitals do not routinely use hypnosis or other psychological pain management strategies with their patients. One reason for this may be that hospitals are not well resourced with clinical psychology staff, and thus their time is taken up with high priority issues such as post trauma psychological symptoms. Another reason may be a lack of education amongst medical staff of the benefits of hypnosis for pain management. It has been suggested that nurses are well positioned within a hospital environment to use hypnosis for pain management (Valente, 2006). Nurses spend more time with patients than other clinicians, and are often present during painful procedures. However, nurses have a demanding role and may not have time amongst their general duties, or specialist training, to work through hypnosis protocols with patients. It has been suggested that nurses may have time to administer and reinforce an audio recording of a hypnosis protocol, and that this may have similar benefits to protocols administered directly by a practitioner. The aim of this study is to trial an audio recording of a Rapid Induction Analgesia (RIA) hypnosis protocol with a student sample, as a pilot study, to determine if a larger scale study at the burns unit at Fiona Stanley hospital may be worthwhile in 2015. The effects of hypnosis on students’ experience of pain will be examined. References Patterson, D (2010). Clinical Hypnosis for Pain Control. Washington: American Psychological Association. Patterson, D., & Jensen, M. (2003). Hypnosis and clinical pain. Psychological Bulletin, 129:4, 495-521 Valente, S. (2006). Hypnosis for pain management. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing, 44:2, 2-9 Wright, B. & Drummond, P. (2000). Rapid induction analgesia for the alleviation of procedural pain during burn care. Burns, 26, 275-282 Wright, B. & Drummond, P. (2001). The effect of rapid induction analgesia on subjective pain ratings and pain tolerance. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis. 49:2. 109-122
Interventions
Rapid Induction Analgesia is a 20-minute hypnosis procedure with suggestions for relaxation and pain mediation. The intervention will be given as an audio recording that lasts for 20 minutes. There will be two experimental conditions, one where participants listen to the recording two days, then one day before and during a testing session and one where they just listen during the testing session. In the testing session pain will be induced using capsaicin applied to their forearms. Participants
Rapid Induction Analgesia is a 20-minute hypnosis procedure with suggestions for relaxation and pain mediation. The intervention will be given as an audio recording that lasts for 20 minutes. There will be two experimental conditions, one where participants listen to the recording two days, then one day before and during a testing session and one where they just listen during the testing session. In the testing session pain will be induced using capsaicin applied to their forearms. Participants will then listen to the recording, or relaxing music, and then rate pain distress and intensity in response to several mechanical stimuli applied to the forearm. Mechanical stimulation will be applied using an algometer which measures pressure, a temperature simulator that will apply heat of approximately 43C and a Neuropen that will produce a sharp pricking sensation. The testing session will take approximately one hour.
Sponsors
Murdoch University
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
Adults 18 and over Generally good physical and mental health
Exclusion criteria
Diagnosis of a dissociative disorder, major depression, any anxiety condition with severe anxiety symptoms, schizophrenia Diagnosis of a chronic pain condition Pregnancy Breastfeeding Identified allergy to chilli or capsaicin
Outcome results
None listed