Condition: Psychological Distress · Pain · Anxiety · Sponsor: Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro
Undergoing medical procedures, especially surgical ones, is a significant source of emotional stress for patients. Emotions like anxiety, fear, anger, and depression often accompany such experiences and can negatively impact clinical outcomes. Preoperative anxiety, in particular, affects nearly half of all surgical patients and can lead to complications such as hemodynamic instability, increased medication needs, and prolonged recovery times. Managing this emotional distress is therefore a priority. While pharmacological strategies are commonly used, growing attention is being given to non-drug interventions such as music, art, and play therapies. One such technique is hypnotic communication-a method that uses empathetic, suggestion-based language to influence emotional and physical states without formal hypnotic induction. This technique has roots in anesthesiology and has shown promise in reducing pain and anxiety during medical procedures. The proposed study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of hypnotic communication in reducing emotional distress in patients undergoing elective coronary angiography. This will be done through a randomized controlled trial involving 306 adult patients at the Cardiology Unit of the Ospedale degli Infermi in Biella, Italy. Participants will be randomly assigned to either an experimental group receiving hypnotic communication alongside standard care, or a control group receiving standard care only. The hypnotic session, delivered by traine…
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Alberto Dal Molin, Associate Professor, PhD · +39 0321660607 · alberto.dalmolin@med.uniupo.it
Dino Stefano Di Massimo, MSN · 01515153432 · dinostefano.dimassimo@aslbi.piemonte.it
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