Manage Your Workingnegative Thoughts Through Hypnosis

Last updated: May 25, 2025
Sponsor: University of Padova
Overall Status: Completed

Phase

N/A

Condition

Stress

Treatment

hypnosis

Clinical Study ID

NCT06778109
IPNOSIS
  • Ages > 18
  • All Genders
  • Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Summary

Medical doctor generally are exposed to several risks and pressures, it is not a case that several meta-analyses have shown high stress and anxiety level in these workers. Stress management represents a very important topic. Being a doctor means dealing with continous effort and arousal management to provide the best treatment through executive functions capacity. This is particularly true for younger medical trainees; that have also to learn how to deal with failure and the curve of learning. Hypnosis has been shown to be very effective at modulating executive functions and sympathovagal balance, with large effect in post traumatic stress disease (PTSD), anxiety and executive function modulation. Therefore, this study aim to investigate if hypnosis could be beneficial among medical trainees for managing negative thoughts related to work.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

Inclusion Criteria:

  • age > 18 years old,

  • being medical doctor or at first year of residency in Anesthesiology

  • obtained written informed consent

Exclusion

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Neurological issues affecting stress responses

  • Diabetes

  • Cardiovascular conditions (i.e., hypertension, orthostatic hypotension etc)

  • Being under psychiatric medications

  • Psychological or psychiatric diseases

Study Design

Total Participants: 26
Treatment Group(s): 1
Primary Treatment: hypnosis
Phase:
Study Start date:
February 06, 2025
Estimated Completion Date:
April 01, 2025

Study Description

Stress and anxiety are very important issues in medical training. Several methods have been applied, from psychotherapy to biofeedback, but the physiological component usually have been dismissed. Training medical trainees to manage their physiological activity through hypnosis can probably transfer practical results, i.e. increased wellbeing, modulation of the working energy and the transfer from planning to properly execution. To obtain this results after a basal evaluation of physiological data (HR; Heart rate, HRV, Heart Rate Variability, EDA; Electrodermal activity, and SCr; Skin conductance responses) stress and of anxiety levels, , with PSS-10 scale, VAS stress, VAS anxiety and Tower of London test ( TOL-R), participants will recollect a negative memory for 3 minutes to monitor their response. After that a brief session of hypnosis will be performed with positive memories being recollected while all physiological data will be monitored. Then participants will be subjected again to the negative memory task end at the end of the session the same test of the basal evaluation will be carried out.

Connect with a study center

  • University of Padova

    Padova, PD 35126
    Italy

    Site Not Available

  • Istituto di Anestesia e Rianimazione

    Padova, 35126
    Italy

    Site Not Available

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