SynthesisThe International journal of clinical and experimental hypnosis2011
The impact of hypnotic suggestibility in clinical care settings.
Synthesis in The International journal of clinical and experimental hypnosis, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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28 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Meta-analytic evidence on the efficacy of hypnosis for mental and somatic health issues: a 20-year perspective.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Pooled it
- Hypnosis reshapes multilevel stress response and enhances executive performance in stressed medical students.Scientific reports · 2026Trial
- Increasing handgrip strength via post-hypnotic suggestions with lasting effects.Scientific reports · 2024Trial
- Who Benefits the Most From Different Psychological Chronic Pain Treatments? An Exploratory Analysis of Treatment Moderators.The journal of pain · 2023Trial
- Effectiveness of hypnosis for pain management and promotion of health-related quality-of-life among people with haemophilia: a randomised controlled pilot trial.Scientific reports · 2019Trial
- Validation of the German Version of the Creative Imagination Scale (CIS) in Individuals with Mild to Moderate Depressive Symptoms: A Comparison with the HGSHS-5:G.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Hypnotic suggestibility as a moderator of treatment response in mild to moderate depression: an exploratory secondary analysis.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Trance states during a mind-body intervention monitored by BIS.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Magnetoencephalography monitoring of hypnosis-induced modulation of event-related brain responses by hypnosis.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2026Article
- HGSHS-5:G-First results with the short version of the test for the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility and a comparison with the full version.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Hypnosis in psychotherapy, psychosomatics and medicine. A brief overview.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- Hypnotherapy compared to cognitive-behavioral therapy for smoking cessation in a randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Real-time assessment of hypnotic depth, using an EEG-based brain-computer interface: a preliminary study.BMC research notes · 2023Article
- Hypnotizability in the Clinic, Viewed from the Laboratory.The International journal of clinical and experimental hypnosis · 2023Article
- Hypnosis measured with monitors of anesthetic depth - EEG changes during the test for Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Nocebo Effects of Clinical Communication and Placebo Effects of Positive Suggestions on Respiratory Muscle Strength.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Behavioral Medicine Methods in Treatment of Somatic Conditions.BioMed research international · 2020Review
- Time-Dependent Negative Effects of Verbal and Non-verbal Suggestions in Surgical Patients-A Study on Arm Muscle Strength.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Nocebo Effects and Negative Suggestions in Daily Clinical Practice - Forms, Impact and Approaches to Avoid Them.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2019Review
- Hypnotic susceptibility and affective states in bipolar I and II disorders.BMC psychiatry · 2017Article
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Abstract
Hypnotic suggestibility has been described as a powerful predictor of outcomes associated with hypnotic interventions. However, there have been no systematic approaches to quantifying this effect across the literature. This meta-analysis evaluates the magnitude of the effect of hypnotic suggestibility on hypnotic outcomes in clinical settings. PsycINFO and PubMed were searched from their inception through July 2009. Thirty-four effects from 10 studies and 283 participants are reported. Results revealed a statistically significant overall effect size in the small to medium range (r = .24; 95% Confidence Interval = -0.28 to 0.75), indicating that greater hypnotic suggestibility led to greater effects of hypnosis interventions. Hypnotic suggestibility accounted for 6% of the variance in outcomes. Smaller sample size studies, use of the SHCS, and pediatric samples tended to result in larger effect sizes. The authors question the usefulness of assessing hypnotic suggestibility in clinical contexts.
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