%0 Journal Article
%A Xavier De Almeida-Marques, Francisco
%A Sanchez-Blanco, Jose
%A Javier Cano-Garcia, Francisco
%T Hypnosis is More Effective than Clinical Interviews: Occurrence of Trauma in Fibromyalgia
%D 2018
%@ 0020-7144
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10668/18925
%X To determine whether hypnosis is more effective than conventional interviewing to find traumatic life events in patients with fibromyalgia, we carried out a within-subject experimental design with complete intragroup counterbalancing. Thirty-two women under care in a public primary care center gave 2 identical interviews, with an interval of 3months, in which the occurrence of traumatic life events was explored, once in a state of wakefulness and once in a state of hypnosis. The state of consciousness was evaluated using 3 measures: bispectral index, skin conductance level, and pain intensity. In the hypnotic state, the patients expressed 9.8 times more traumatic life events than in the waking state, a statistically significant difference with a large effect size.
%K Chronic pain
%K Life events
%K Abuse
%K Care
%K Disability
%K Symptoms
%K Criteria
%K Impact
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