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- Title
The efficacy of hypnosis in changing the quality of life in patients with dementia: A pilot-study evaluation.
- Authors
Duff, Simon C.; Nightingale, Daniel J.
- Abstract
A pilot study concerned with influencing the quality of life of elderly, residential and nursing home patients with dementia through hypnosis looked at changes across seven variables over a 9 month period. Three groups of patients were compared, a 'treatment-as-usual' control group, a discussion group and patients receiving hypnosis. Across each of the seven variables the hypnosis group showed the largest improvement, which was also sustained over the 9 month period of the study. The discussion group showed little improvement, but were stable over this period of time and the control group showed a small decline across all measures. Overall, the hypnosis group showed a statistically significant improvement from baseline on the assessed measures of quality of life. We discuss possible explanations for these findings.
- Publication
European Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 2005, Vol 6, Issue 2, p20
- ISSN
1351-1297
- Publication type
Academic Journal