Hypnotherapy for Procedural Pain and Distress in Children: A Scoping Review Protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Inadequately treated pain and distress elicited by medical procedures can put children at higher risk of acute and chronic biopsychosocial sequelae. Children can benefit from hypnotherapy, a psychologically tailored intervention, as an adjunct to pharmacological agents to address the multiple components of pain and distress. Despite providing evidence on the effectiveness and potential superiority of hypnotherapy to other psychological interventions, research on hypnotherapy for pediatric procedural pain and distress has been predominantly limited to oncology and needle procedures. Plus, there is a lack of reporting of intervention manuals, factors influencing hypnotic responding, pain unpleasantness outcomes, theoretical frameworks, adverse events, as well as barriers an

SUBMITTER: Geagea D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8665999 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature