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Guiding Dreaming During Anaesthesia by Means of Communication Through Suggestions. What Influences Our Suggestions? What do Our Suggestions Influence?
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating control, suggestion, and 1 other intervention for Dreamy State. Completed, enrolled 270 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
Hypothesis: By employing suggestions before the induction of narcosis dreams may be evoked and their content may be directed. The main goal of suggestive techniques in the perioperative phase is to turn the content of dreams toward a favourable direction that is considered a pleasant event by the patient. So far little attention has been paid to the administration of perioperative psychological methods that may meet these requirements. Along these lines, in the present study we intended to assess whether dream recalls can be influenced by two different psychological methods administered in the preoperative setting
Study Details
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Interventions
No psychological intervention
In the suggestion group patients received suggestions evoking their images of favourite place at the time of narcosis induction.
In the dreamfilm group patients worked out the dreamfilm plan using a favourite place technique one day prior to surgery. At the induction of anesthesia the series of images prepared by suggestions was evoked.