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Trial reportJournal of evidence-based integrative medicine

Guided Imagery Improves Mood, Fatigue, and Quality of Life in Individuals With Multiple Sclerosis: An Exploratory Efficacy Trial of Healing Light Guided Imagery.

Laura K Case, Paula Jackson, Revere Kinkel, Paul J Mills

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Trial report in Journal of evidence-based integrative medicine. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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13citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 52 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. Is hypnotic assessment relevant to neurology?Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2022
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  12. Set and Setting in the Santo Daime.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Laura K Case1 University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Paula Jackson1 University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Revere Kinkel1 University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Paul J Mills1 University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
University of California, San Diego · USNational Center for Complementary and Integrative Health · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Multiple sclerosis is a disabling and progressive neurological disease that has significant negative effects on health-related quality of life. This exploratory efficacy study examined the effects of Healing Light Guided Imagery (HLGI), a novel variant of guided imagery, compared with a wait-list control in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. Changes in the Beck Depression Inventory, Fatigue Severity Scale, and Multiple Sclerosis Quality of Life instrument (physical and mental components) were compared between groups. Patients who completed HLGI (N = 9) showed significant reductions in depressed mood ( P < .05) and fatigue ( P < .01) and showed significant gains in physical ( P = .01) and mental ( P < .01) quality of life compared with journaling (N = 8). Our results suggest that HLGI can improve self-reported physical and mental well-being in patients with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis. Further research is needed to study the effectiveness of this therapy, as well as its mind-body mechanisms of action.

Indexed as

Imagery, PsychotherapyAdolescentAdultAffectAgedFatigueFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedMultiple Sclerosis, Relapsing-RemittingQuality of LifeYoung Adultdepressionfatigueguided imagerymultiple sclerosisquality of life

Identifiers

PMID29405761
PMCPMC5871039
OpenAlexW2791638693

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