Trial reportWorld journal of psychiatry2022
Randomized trial estimating effects of hypnosis
Trial report in World journal of psychiatry, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Prevalence of test anxiety among medical students: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC medical education · 2026Pooled it
- Event-related potentials reveal hypnotherapy's impact on attention bias in social anxiety disorder.World journal of psychiatry · 2025Article
- Efficacy of Progressive Muscle Relaxation in Adults for Stress, Anxiety, and Depression: A Systematic Review.Psychology research and behavior management · 2024Review
- Hypnotherapy modulating early and late event-related potentials components of face processing in social anxiety.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundTest anxiety is prevalent among medical students and leads to impaired academic performance. Test-related attentional bias has been identified as an important maintaining factor in test-anxious individuals.
aimTo evaluate whether hypnosis and progressive muscle relaxation (PMR) could modify medical college students' test anxiety and attentional bias.
methodsA total of 598 medical students were screened. The participants were divided into higher and lower test anxiety groups according to their scores on the test anxiety scale (TAS). Ninety medical college students with high TAS score were randomly assigned to a hypnosis or PMR group. Another 45 students with low TAS score were included, forming a baseline control group. The intervention was conducted weekly for 6 wk, and each session lasted approximately 30 min. The total intervention time and the number of intervention sessions for the hypnosis and PMR groups were equal. Data were collected at the pretest, posttest, and 2-mo follow-up.
resultsHypnosis group participants had a significantly lower TAS score at posttest (
conclusionThese results suggest that attentional bias plays an important role in test anxiety treatment.
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