Distress fear
Conditions
Interventions
Hypnotherapy
The hypnotherapy will include 2 individual hypnotherapy sessions plus daily
listening to these recorded sessions and to (3 or 4) standardized hypnosis
recordings. The individual session
Sponsors
Amsterdam UMC
Eligibility
Age
18 Years to 64 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Consecutive AYAs (age 18-39) at the (outpatient) clinic that are actively being treated for cancer.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Patients already being treated for psychiatric illness will be excluded.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The primary outcome is feasibility of hypnotherapy as supportive treatment for AYA patients defined as the proportion of patients that complete the 8 weeks of treatment. Complete is defined as attending both individual hypnotherapy sessions. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Secondary outcome measures : - Feasibility of included questionnaires measured by the proportion of patients that complete all questionnaires pre-intervention (T0) and post-intervention (T3 and T4). - Feasibility of self-hypnosis measured by the proportion of patients that weekly perform self-hypnosis exercises and use recorded scripts for self-hypnosis measured using a structured exit interview on the experiences with medical hypnotherapy. - Patient-reported satisfaction measured using a structured exit interview on the experiences with medical hypnotherapy. - Reach measured as the number of participants and non-participants from the eligible patient population. Both numbers are retrieved from the central study database completed by the study coordinator. - Distress (i.e. anxiety and depression) measured using the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Anxiety (7a) and Depression (8a) questionnaire. - Fear of cancer progression as assessed using the Cancer Worry Scale (CWS) questionnaire. - Quality of sleep as assessed by the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) questionnaire. - Quality of life as assessed using the QLQ-C30 (version 3.0) questionnaire. - Change in distress, fear of cancer progression, quality of sleep and quality of life measured by comparing outcomes of questionnaires pre-intervention (T0) and post-intervention (T3). - Exploration of domains in which AYAs find positive emotions and energy, exploration of coping strategies and exploration of domains with unmet needs. | — |
Countries
Netherlands
Outcome results
None listed