Trial reportJournal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR2008
Beneficial effects of hypnosis and adverse effects of empathic attention during percutaneous tumor treatment: when being nice does not suffice.
Trial report in Journal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 30 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
The Impact of Comfort Talk on Anxiety Levels and Procedural Experience in a Pediatric Population Undergoing Cardiac Catheterization: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial
Nonpharmacologic Reduction of Periprocedural Pain, Anxiety, and Prescription Drug Use Phase II
Who cites it
30 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 108 citations in OpenAlex.
- Hypnosis for anaesthetists: a systematic review and meta-analyses.Anaesthesia · 2026Pooled it
- The impact of compassion-based interventions on perioperative anxiety and depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of affective disorders · 2024Pooled it
- The Efficacy, Safety and Applications of Medical Hypnosis.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2016Pooled it
- Meta-analysis of psychosocial interventions to reduce pain in patients with cancer.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2012Pooled it
- Effectiveness of Hypnosis for the Prevention of Anxiety During Coronary Angiography (HYPCOR study): a prospective randomized study.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2022Trial
- Effects of Patients' Affect on Adverse Procedural Events during Image-Guided Interventions.Journal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR · 2017Trial
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- Vocal local versus pharmacological treatments for pain management in tubal ligation procedures in rural Kenya: a non-inferiority trial.BMC women's health · 2014Trial
- Efficacy of a Self-Hypnotic Relaxation App on Pain and Anxiety in a Randomized Clinical Trial: Results and Considerations on the Design of Active and Control Apps.The International journal of clinical and experimental hypnosisTrial
- Ultrasound-guided kidney biopsy: a ten-year retrospective single-center experience and the promising role of clinical hypnosis.International urology and nephrology · 2025Article
- Adjunctive use of hypnosis for clinical pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Pain reports · 2024Review
- Integrative Approaches for Cancer Pain Management.Current oncology reports · 2024Review
- The Benefits of Integrative Medicine for Pain Management in Oncology: A Narrative Review of the Current Evidence.Cureus · 2023Review
- Preparing patients according to their individual coping style improves patient experience of magnetic resonance imaging.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2022Article
- Nurses' perception of integrating an innovative clinical hypnosis-derived intervention into outpatient chemotherapy treatments.Canadian oncology nursing journal = Revue canadienne de nursing oncologique · 2022Article
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- The Impact of Scripted Self-Hypnotic Relaxation on the Periprocedural Experience and Anesthesiologist Sedation Use in the Pediatric Cardiac Catheterization Suite: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of pain research · 2022Article
- Nurse's knowledge and perceptions on communicative hypnosis: an observational study.Acta bio-medica : Atenei Parmensis · 2021Observational
- Audio-guided self-hypnosis for reduction of claustrophobia during MR imaging: results of an observational 2-group study.European radiology · 2021Observational
- Comfort Talk®: From the Waiting Room to the Treatment Suite.Deutsche Zeitschrift fur zahnarztliche Hypnose · 2019Article
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Abstract
purposeTo determine how hypnosis and empathic attention during percutaneous tumor treatments affect pain, anxiety, drug use, and adverse events. MATERIALS AND
methodsFor their tumor embolization or radiofrequency ablation, 201 patients were randomized to receive standard care, empathic attention with defined behaviors displayed by an additional provider, or self-hypnotic relaxation including the defined empathic attention behaviors. All had local anesthesia and access to intravenous medication. Main outcome measures were pain and anxiety assessed every 15 minutes by patient self-report, medication use (with 50 mug fentanyl or 1 mg midazolam counted as one unit), and adverse events, defined as occurrences requiring extra medical attention, including systolic blood pressure fluctuations (> or =50 mm Hg change to >180 mm Hg or <105 mm Hg), vasovagal episodes, cardiac events, and respiratory impairment.
resultsPatients treated with hypnosis experienced significantly less pain and anxiety than those in the standard care and empathy groups at several time intervals and received significantly fewer median drug units (mean, 2.0; interquartile range [IQR], 1-4) than patients in the standard (mean, 3.0; IQR, 1.5-5.0; P = .0147) and empathy groups (mean, 3.50; IQR, 2.0-5.9; P = .0026). Thirty-one of 65 patients (48%) in the empathy group had adverse events, which was significantly more than in the hypnosis group (eight of 66; 12%; P = .0001) and standard care group (18 of 70; 26%; P = .0118).
conclusionsProcedural hypnosis including empathic attention reduces pain, anxiety, and medication use. Conversely, empathic approaches without hypnosis that provide an external focus of attention and do not enhance patients' self-coping can result in more adverse events. These findings should have major implications in the education of procedural personnel.
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