Hypnosis for Symptom Management in Elective Orthopedic Surgery

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Conditions studied: Hypnosis, Perioperative Care, Knee Arthroplasty, Total, Postoperative Pain, Postoperative Complications

In brief

The purpose of the study is to determine if teaching self-hypnosis techniques to patients prior to knee replacement surgery will decrease their pain medication requirements, pain medication side-effects, length of stay in the hospital, readmission rates, pain, anxiety, physical function, satisfaction scores, and cost of admission.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03308071

Run by

Stanford University

People needed

64

Starts

2017-09-20

Expected to finish

2020-08-30

Last updated by the study team

2021-08-25

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• At least 18 years old.
• scheduled for a primary, unilateral, total knee replacement surgery within the study period
• able to commit to a single study clinic visit at least one week prior to their scheduled surgery and use of phone recordings
• able to read and understand English
• Score at least 25 on mini-mental state exam

You may not qualify if…

• severe psychiatric or structural brain disease (ie. psychosis, stroke with functional impairment, dementia)
• current use of hypnosis/self-hypnosis
• enrolled in other clinical trials related to pain management or length of stay
• hearing impairment that would impede ability to listen to a phone recording

Where it is running

• Stanford University/Stanford Healthcare — Palo Alto, California, United States

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