Best Practice Recommendations for Conducting and Reporting Controlled Trials in Clinical Hypnosis Research.

ABSTRACT: There is an abundance of outcomes research for clinical hypnosis showing promising results. Nonetheless, hypnosis is still underutilized in clinical care. For a behavioral intervention to enter mainstream clinical care, efficacy needs to be demonstrated with exceptionally high quality of evidence, and its reporting needs to be complete and sufficiently clear to enable replication and clinical use. The present article provides best practice guidelines formulated by the Task Force for Establishing Efficacy Standards for Clinical Hypnosis for conducting and reporting clinical hypnosis research.The recommendations are presented in two tiers. Tier I recommendations include essential best practices, such as a call for the use of detailed research and intervention manuals, plans for and re

SUBMITTER: Kekecs Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11483803 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature