Pilot study of the effect of self-hypnosis on the medical management of essential hypertension

✍ Scribed by Raskin, Richard ;Raps, Charles ;Luskin, Frederic ;Carlson, Rosemarie ;Cristal, Robert

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 77 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0748-8386
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1700(199910)15:4<243::aid-smi820>3.0.co;2-o

✦ Synopsis

Medical patients diagnosed as hypertensive whose blood pressures were normalized while they were hospitalized were often found to require upward titration of medication upon follow-up as outpatients. Self-hypnosis was taught to one group of hospitalized patients; a second group received equal attention and time to relax without the speci®ed procedure; and a third group was monitored with no intervention. On follow-up, the hypnosis group showed greater downward change in diastolic blood pressure than the monitored group, with the attention-only group in between. Additionally, no subjects in the hypnosis group required upward titration of medications. The results suggest both replication with a larger sample and the value of adding self-hypnosis to the standard medical treatment for hypertension.