Hypnosis as an Adjunct for Managing Pain in Head and Neck Cancer Patients Post Radiotherapy
Thuma, K.; Ditsataporncharoen, T.; Arunpongpaisal, S.; Siripul, P.
Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand 99(Suppl 5): S141-S147
2016
ISSN/ISBN: 0125-2208 PMID: 29906024 Document Number: 17352
Many factors contribute to pain in cancer patients. Hypnotherapy is the mental processes, involving conscious and unconscious awareness to understanding of the pain to correct thought, improve emotional acceptance, and reduce pain by the patient themselves. To examine the effects of hypnotherapy on pain reduction in the patient's with head and neck cancer after radiation therapy. A randomized controlled clinical trial was conducted with the 68 patients who were divided into two Sixty-eight patients were recruited in the present study and half were randomly assigned to hypnotherapy group. One participant in the treatment and two participants in the control groups discontinued before the end of the study. Demographic data were comparable in the two groups. No complication was found during, immediately after, or five days after the procedure. After adjusted with baseline, gender, age, non-opioid, week-opioid, and strong-opioid, hypnosis treatment demonstrated significantly less pain score -1.966, (95% CI -2.260 to -1.673, p-value <0.001) than the control group. Hypnosis can reduce pain in patients with head and neck cancer after radiation therapy and it is much better