Hypnosis for Symptom Management in Elective Orthopedic Surgery
| Status: | Recruiting |
|---|---|
| Conditions: | Post-Surgical Pain, Hospital |
| Therapuetic Areas: | Musculoskeletal, Other |
| Healthy: | No |
| Age Range: | 18 - Any |
| Updated: | 10/14/2017 |
| Start Date: | September 20, 2017 |
| End Date: | September 2019 |
| Contact: | Jessie Kittle, MD |
| Email: | jkittle@stanford.edu |
| Phone: | 8318400599 |
A Randomized Study Using Hypnosis for Symptom Management in Elective Orthopedic Surgery
The purpose of the study is to determine if teaching self-hypnosis techniques to patients
prior to knee replacement surgery will decrease their pain medication requirements, pain
medication side-effects, length of stay in the hospital, readmission rates, pain, anxiety,
physical function, satisfaction scores, and cost of admission.
prior to knee replacement surgery will decrease their pain medication requirements, pain
medication side-effects, length of stay in the hospital, readmission rates, pain, anxiety,
physical function, satisfaction scores, and cost of admission.
Patients will be recruited by through orthopedic surgery clinics or contacted by after
pre-screening via chart review and given an information brochure. If they are interested in
the trial will be emailed or given a paper copy of the consent form and scheduled for a
single additional visit in the Integrative Medicine Center at Hoover Pavilion approximately 1
week before surgery. At the single study visit, participants would be consented, then a
mini-mental state test would be performed to determine if participants are eligible by a
score of 25 or above. If eligible, participants would be asked to fill out surveys relating
to demographics, attitudes and experience with hypnosis, and detailed pain medication usage.
Then, participants would be randomized to hypnosis vs. no hypnosis. The hypnosis group will
undergo a Hypnotic Induction Profile to score hypnotizability, then be lead through a
hypnosis induction and read a perioperative symptom management script, then re-alerted from
hypnosis. Patients in this group would then be asked to listen to the same hypnosis script on
a telephone recording twice per day until after the surgery when participants feel they don't
need it anymore.
The control group will fill out the surveys and the study visit will end. Participants will
be asked not to use any hypnosis until the trial period is over. Data regarding pain,
activity, and satisfaction is already collected by email survey or by Ipad in orthopedic
clinic at or before the pre-op visit, and 3 months post-op.
Patients in the knee study will be asked to fill out the same surveys around the two week and
six week post-op orthopedic clinic visits as well. One additional survey will be added at the
2 week post-op visit to reassess attitudes and experience with hypnosis, and detailed pain
medication usage. Those participants who do not fill out the survey will be called and/or
emailed to remind them to fill it out.
pre-screening via chart review and given an information brochure. If they are interested in
the trial will be emailed or given a paper copy of the consent form and scheduled for a
single additional visit in the Integrative Medicine Center at Hoover Pavilion approximately 1
week before surgery. At the single study visit, participants would be consented, then a
mini-mental state test would be performed to determine if participants are eligible by a
score of 25 or above. If eligible, participants would be asked to fill out surveys relating
to demographics, attitudes and experience with hypnosis, and detailed pain medication usage.
Then, participants would be randomized to hypnosis vs. no hypnosis. The hypnosis group will
undergo a Hypnotic Induction Profile to score hypnotizability, then be lead through a
hypnosis induction and read a perioperative symptom management script, then re-alerted from
hypnosis. Patients in this group would then be asked to listen to the same hypnosis script on
a telephone recording twice per day until after the surgery when participants feel they don't
need it anymore.
The control group will fill out the surveys and the study visit will end. Participants will
be asked not to use any hypnosis until the trial period is over. Data regarding pain,
activity, and satisfaction is already collected by email survey or by Ipad in orthopedic
clinic at or before the pre-op visit, and 3 months post-op.
Patients in the knee study will be asked to fill out the same surveys around the two week and
six week post-op orthopedic clinic visits as well. One additional survey will be added at the
2 week post-op visit to reassess attitudes and experience with hypnosis, and detailed pain
medication usage. Those participants who do not fill out the survey will be called and/or
emailed to remind them to fill it out.
Inclusion Criteria:
- At least 18 years old.
- scheduled for a primary, unilateral, total knee replacement surgery within the study
period
- able to commit to a single study clinic visit at least one week prior to their
scheduled surgery and use of phone recordings
- able to read and understand English
- Score at least 25 on mini-mental state exam
Exclusion Criteria:
- severe psychiatric or structural brain disease (ie. psychosis, stroke with functional
impairment, dementia)
- current use of hypnosis/self-hypnosis
- enrolled in other clinical trials related to pain management or length of stay
- hearing impairment that would impede ability to listen to a phone recording
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