Impact on health status of a hypnosis clinic in general practice
| Autor: | Sivasubramaniam Selvaraj, John Gruzelier, Alastair Dobbin, Steve Faulkner, David Heaney |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
| Předmět: |
Complementary and Manual Therapy
Hypnosis medicine.medical_specialty business.industry medicine.medical_treatment Psychological intervention Mental illness medicine.disease Mental health law.invention Clinical Psychology Randomized controlled trial law Health care medicine Smoking cessation Anxiety medicine.symptom Psychiatry business |
| Zdroj: | Contemporary Hypnosis. 21:153-160 |
| ISSN: | 1557-0711 0960-5290 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/ch.302 |
| Popis: | The impact on health status of hypnosis was investigated in a primary care NHS GP surgery clinic, with referrals from a Local Health Care Cooperative (LHCC) with 85,000 patients. The Medical Outcomes Study Short Form-36 Health Survey (SF36) pre and post treatment was completed by patients referred with mental health problems, medical problems and for smoking cessation. One hundred and fifteen patients successfully completed SF36 questionnaires before and six weeks after the intervention. Categories of treatment were smoking cessation, mental health, and medical. In the case of referrals for smoking cessation there were no significant changes in mental, social or physical function six weeks after the intervention. In the case of mental health referrals, which were predominantly anxiety related, there was a large and significant effect on the SF-36 in emotional role and mental role and a moderate effect on social role and mental health. Self-hypnosis was in widespread use after treatment, even in those whose perceived problem appeared not to have improved. The results suggest that simple hypnosis techniques could have a significant impact on mental health. This could have implications for promoting mental health as well as for treating mental illness, and needs to be tested further by a randomized, controlled trial. |
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