TY  - JOUR
AU  - Schmidt, Barbara
AU  - Deffner, Teresa
AU  - Rosendahl, Jenny
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/04/28
TI  - Feeling Safe during Intensive Care: Protocol of a Pilot Study on Therapeutic Suggestions of Safety under Hypnosis in Patients with Non-Invasive Ventilation
JO  - OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine
SP  - 025
VL  - 05
IS  - 02
AB  - Patients in the intensive care unit are confronted with an extreme situation that may cause stress and anxiety. The negative experiences may cause patients to suffer for the long-term after leaving the intensive care unit. One such stressor in the intensive care unit is non-invasive ventilation. Positive therapeutic suggestions under hypnosis can help patients in intensive care to enhance their well-being by helping them to deal with specific stress like being ventilated. The aim of our study is to assess the effects of therapeutic suggestions of safety under hypnosis in patients on non-invasive ventilation during intensive care. We present a pre-post study design to evaluate the effects of standardized safety suggestions under hypnosis carried out in a face-to-face setting. We include non-invasively ventilated patients treated in the intensive care unit who must be able to communicate and be oriented toward all dimensions, i.e., person, place, time, and particularly, situation. Patients rate their subjective feelings of valence, arousal, anxiety, as well as the aversiveness of the breathing mask, before and after receiving therapeutic suggestions of safety under hypnosis. The physiological parameters like heart rate, blood pressure, breathing rate, and blood oxygen level before, during, and after providing the suggestions under hypnosis. We test the effectiveness of therapeutic suggestions of safety under hypnosis in non-invasively ventilated patients during treatment in the intensive care unit. Psychological interventions such as positive suggestions under hypnosis can help to reduce acute mental distress. Patients in intensive care are in an extreme situation accompanied by stress and anxiety and often suffer from negative long-term complications; therefore, our study addresses an existential need in critical care. We thus provide evidence that positive suggestions under hypnosis increase psychological well-being and reduce the impact of stressors, such as being ventilated in the intensive care unit.
SN  - 2573-4393
UR  - https://doi.org/10.21926/obm.icm.2002025
DO  - 10.21926/obm.icm.2002025
ID  - Schmidt2020
ER  -