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Improved Rehabilitation After Surgery and Hypnosis: Benefits Potentiated by a Preoperative Consultation

Improved Rehabilitation After Surgery and Hypnosis: Benefits Potentiated by a Preoperative Consultation

Status
Completed
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT05276882
Acronym
RACHYP
Enrollment
55
Registered
2022-03-11
Start date
2022-12-08
Completion date
2024-07-19
Last updated
2024-10-15

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Conditions

Gynecological Disease

Keywords

laparoscopic gynecological surgery

Brief summary

Today, patient management in the context of scheduled surgery must meet new requirements. The understanding of surgical aggression, the evolution of anesthesia and surgery techniques have allowed the birth of the protocol of Improved Rehabilitation After Surgery. The objective is a pain-free surgery, with a minimum of risks, with a global management of the patient and an active participation. In 2019, the Nice University Hospital developed this program. Other non-medicinal techniques could promote the evolution of this program such as integrative medicine with, in this study case, hypnosis. Since 2002, thanks to its widely recognized effectiveness in the treatment of pain and in helping with care, its use has developed. A hypnosis session, proposed in the preoperative period, would considerably reduce the patient's anxiety, postoperative pain, a better and faster recovery with an easier healing: objectives of the Improved Rehabilitation After Surgery program. The patient's satisfaction would also be improved thanks to his active participation, in a greater comfort, which the investigators want to demonstrate by our work.

Interventions

OTHERHypnosis

It will be an individualized hypnosis session of Ericksonian type. It consists in going through 3 phases: induction, dissociation, suggestion. The principle is to focus the patient's attention by talking to her or by surprising her, or by making her do an incongruous gesture which will make her focus on a restricted idea. She will reduce her field of consciousness and concentrate. This is where her work will begin, allowing her unconscious to function in order to find her solutions. At this moment, she is particularly receptive to suggestions and the hypnotherapist accompanies and guides her thoughts and her associations of ideas on therapeutic paths. He provokes a unique personal work which aims to promote healing.

OTHERpre-surgery consultation

Dialogue with the patient to clarify her expectations. * Answers to the patient's questions * Precision on the organization of the hospitalization if necessary * Information on the postoperative period with postural advice to facilitate the first getting up with less discomfort, and postures promoting rest in the postoperative period * Information on relaxation techniques and their interest (abdominal breathing)

Sponsors

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE (Subject)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
FEMALE
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

* Female gender * Age ≥ 18 years * Indication for laparoscopic gynecological surgery eligible for the Improved Rehabilitation After Surgery protocol * Understanding of French essential * Signature of informed consent * Affiliation to a Social Security system

Exclusion criteria

* Patient with a history of psychiatric pathologies (Schizophrenia, Psychosis, Bipolarity) * Deafness, intellectual deficiency not allowing comprehension * Pregnant or breastfeeding women * Women of childbearing age who are not using an effective method of contraception (pill, intrauterine device, vaginal ring, contraceptive skin patch, subcutaneous hormonal implant, surgical sterilization) * Patient under guardianship or deprived of liberty

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Patient anxietyUp to 2 monthsEvolution of the patient's anxiety between the initial consultation and the day of the surgery. Anxiety will be measured using the Spielberger State Trait Anxiety Inventory (S.T.A.I.) To obtain the state-anxiety score, the scores obtained for the 20 items corresponding to the state-anxiety (items 1 to 20) are added together. If two or more items are not answered, the questionnaire cannot be used. The mean score for women in non-anxiety situations was 47.13 with a standard deviation of 10. A score higher than this indicates an anxious state. Very high score \> 65 High score = 56 to 65 Average score= 46 to 55 Low score=36 to 45 Very low score \< or = 35

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Patient satisfactionday of discharge from hospital, average of 7 daysPatient satisfaction will be assessed using the Enhanced Rehabilitation After Surgery protocol satisfaction questionnaire The questionnaire is composed of 9 questions exploring the patient's general feeling about her care, the clarity of the information received, pain, the Enhanced Rehabilitation After Surgery protocol
length of stay in hospitalthe day of discharge from hospital, average of 7 dayslength of stay in hospital defined as the number of days between the day of surgery and discharge
use of injectable analgesicDay 7 of the surgeryComparison of the number of patients having had an injectable analgesic prescription between Day 1 and Day 7 of the surgery (binary yes/no criterion). This evaluation is only relevant from Day 1 onwards, because at Day 0 it is very common to have to resort to parenteral analgesia.
speed of cicatrizationDay 7 of the discharge from hospitalThe speed of cicatrization will be evaluated in the postoperative period by means of the patient's logbook, which evaluates the evolution of the wound from day 2. The wound will be considered healed as soon as the patient answers that the dressing is clean.

Countries

France

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026