Clinical trial NCT06038370: Self-induced Cognitive Trance for Chronic Pain Management
Official title: Self-induced Cognitive Trance to Improve Quality of Life of Patients With Chronic
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Chronic Pain
Keywords: Self-induced cognitive trance
Non-ordinary state of consciousness
Pain
Quality of life
Lead sponsor: University of Liege
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2023-09-14
Enrollment: 6
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 70
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The need to find complementary approaches, based on a holistic perspective of the human being, takes on its full meaning in a political context that recommends efficient health programs. Self-induced cognitive trance is one of these complementary approaches, which induce a non-ordinary state of consciousness. The aim of this work is to evaluate whether learning self-induced cognitive trance can improve the quality of life of people with chronic pain. Participants will participate in two times two days workshop aiming at learning how to self-induce cognitive trance. Pain, Fatigue, anxiety, depression, attitudes towards pain, and quality of life will be assessed before and after each workshops. Two follow-ups at 6 and 12 months afer the last workshop will be caried out were outomes will be assessed. Furthmore, questionnaires related to the phenomenology of self-induced cognitive trance will be adeministrered. Investigators also proceeded to interveiwes after the second workshop to gather qualitative information.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* French speacking
* Chronic pain
* On stable pharmacological treatment over the last four months

Exclusion Criteria:

* Psychiatric disorders,
* drug addiction
* alcoholism

Primary outcomes:
measure: Pain intensity
timeFrame: Assessed before the intervention, immediately after the first workshop, immediately after the second workshop and at 6- and 12-month follow-up
measure: Fatigue intensity
timeFrame: Assessed before the intervention, immediately after the first workshop, immediately after the second workshop and at 6- and 12-month follow-up
measure: Anxiety
timeFrame: Assessed before the intervention, immediately after the first workshop, immediately after the second workshop and at 6- and 12-month follow-up
measure: Depression
timeFrame: Assessed before the intervention, immediately after the first workshop, immediately after the second workshop and at 6- and 12-month follow-up
measure: Attitudes towards pain
timeFrame: Assessed before the intervention, immediately after the first workshop, immediately after the second workshop and at 6- and 12-month follow-up
measure: Quality of life
timeFrame: Assessed before the intervention, immediately after the first workshop, immediately after the second workshop and at 6- and 12-month follow-up
measure: Global Impression of change
timeFrame: Assessed before the intervention, immediately after the first workshop, immediately after the second workshop and at 6- and 12-month follow-up
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Positive affect
timeFrame: Assessed before the intervention, immediately after the first workshop, immediately after the second workshop and at 6- and 12-month follow-up
measure: Negative affect
timeFrame: Assessed before the intervention, immediately after the first workshop, immediately after the second workshop and at 6- and 12-month follow-up
measure: Ego-Dissolution
timeFrame: Assessed before the intervention, immediately after the first workshop, immediately after the second workshop and at 6- and 12-month follow-up
measure: Mystical Experience
timeFrame: Assessed before the intervention, immediately after the first workshop, immediately after the second workshop and at 6- and 12-month follow-up
measure: Phenomenology of trance
timeFrame: Assessed before the intervention, immediately after the first workshop, immediately after the second workshop and at 6- and 12-month follow-up
measure: Experience with trance
timeFrame: Immediately after the second workshop
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Liège
country: Belgium
facility: CHU of Liège
city: Liège
country: Belgium
facility: University of Liège
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