• Marion Dumain, Pauline Jaglin, Chantal Wood, Pierre Rainville, Benjamin Pageaux, Anaick Perrochon, Martin Lavallière, Tanguy Vendeuvre, Romain David, Pascaline Langlois, Noelle Cardinaud, Achille Tchalla, Philippe Rigoard, and Maxime Billot.
• From the PRISMATICS Lab (Predictive Research In Spine/Neurostimulation Management And Thoracic Innovation in Cardiac Surgery), Poitiers University Hospital, Poitiers, France.
• Pain Manag Nurs. 2022 Jun 1; 23 (3): 330-337.

BackgroundPain is a major public health concern in the aging population. However, medication brings about negative effects that compel healthcare professionals to seek alternative management techniques to alleviate pain. Hypnosis has been recognized as an effective technique to manage pain, but its long-term efficacy has yet to be examined in older adults.AimsThe aim was to assess the effectiveness, over a 12-month period, of home-care hypnosis in elderly participants suffering from chronic pain.DesignReal-life retrospective one-arm study with a 12-month follow-up.SettingsElderly Persons Suffering From Chronic Pain enrolled in a clinical health care program that offered home medical follow-up.Participants/SubjectsFourteen elderly women (mean age 81 years) with chronic pain participated in the home-care hypnosis program. All participants presented chronic pain (≥6 months) with average pain score >4/10.MethodsParticipants took part in seven 15-minute hypnosis sessions within 12 months. The Brief Pain Inventory questionnaire was used to evaluate pain perception and pain interference at baseline and at 3-, 6-, and 12-month follow-up period.ResultsHypnosis home-care program significantly decreased pain perception and pain interference compared to baseline after 3 months (-29% and -40%, p < .001), and remained lower at 6 (-31% and -54%, p < .001) and 12 (-31% and -47%, p < .001) months.ConclusionsSeven sessions of 15 minutes allocated throughout a 12-month period produced clinically significant decreases in pain perception and pain interference. Hypnosis could be considered as an optimal additional way for health practitioners to manage chronic pain in an elderly population with long-term efficacy. This study offers a new long-term option to improve chronic pain management at home in elderly populations through a low-cost nonpharmacological intervention.Copyright © 2021 American Society for Pain Management Nursing. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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