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Article Dans Une Revue Complementary Therapies in Medicine Année : 2022

Hypnotherapy and insomnia: A narrative review of the literature

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INTRODUCTION: Hypnotherapy is increasingly used in general medicine in France to manage health problems such as insomnia. There is some evidence to support the efficacy of hypnosis in treating insomnia but this evidence is based on methodologies of various strengths. This review aims to explore the methodological elements employed in hypnotherapy research to manage insomnia. METHOD: We performed a narrative review of the literature using systematic review methods focusing on treating insomnia with hypnosis. PubMed, Psycinfo, BASE and Cochrane databases and Google scholar were searched. RESULTS: Overall, 25 studies were included consisting of 10 case studies, 11 randomised, controlled trials and 4 pre and post intervention studies. The study designs, intervention, control and comparators were heterogeneous, as were the hypnosis definitions and techniques. Also, detailed descriptions of the hypnosis techniques were lacking. Most studies used non-quantifiable measurement criteria and sample numbers were too small to show significance or be representative. No double-blind study was found. CONCLUSION: Our results indicate that the current research concerning the efficacy of hypnosis to relieve insomnia is lacking in key methodological elements. The evaluation research process requires robust methodology. We propose applying the IDEAL framework, which recommends research steps to evaluate non-pharmacological and other complex therapies to evaluate the efficacy of hypnosis to manage insomnia.
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S Mamoune, E Mener, A Chapron, J Poimboeuf. Hypnotherapy and insomnia: A narrative review of the literature. Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 2022, 65, pp.102805. ⟨10.1016/j.ctim.2022.102805⟩. ⟨hal-03554619⟩
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