HYPNOsis in the Management of Atopic Dermatitis in Children and Teenagers : Study Protocol of a Pilot Randomized and Controlled Trial

Status: Recruiting
Intervention Type: Behavioral
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY

Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic inflammatory dermatosis, common in children. It causes pruritus and skin lesions that can have a significant impact on patients' quality of life. AD can be difficult to treat because of its chronicity, demanding local care, corticophobia and the financial cost of non-reimbursed products. Patients are often looking for therapeutic alternatives. Medical hypnosis is a therapeutic alternative via hypnoanalgesia induced by direct suggestions of comfort and skin soothing and via anxiolysis, by working on stress management and self-esteem reinforcement. Four studies are interested in its action in AD and seem to show a reduction in pruritus, skin pain, an improvement in the intensity of atopic dermatitis, sleep, mood and for some a cure of AD. These results are encouraging but limited by the absence of a control group or by the small population included. Therefore, we propose in a first step to evaluate the feasibility of an hypnosis program through a pilot study, designed in the miniature format of a future, larger scale, randomized controlled trial.

Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 8
Maximum Age: 17
Healthy Volunteers: f
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• Children aged 8 to 17 years

• Understanding french

• Have a clinical diagnosis of mild-to-severe AD with a SCORing Atopic Dermatitis (SCORAD)

• Referred by their referring physician in the Reunionese therapeutic education program for AD provided within the atopy school of the Reunion University Hospital. - Oral consent of the child and of one of the legal representatives collected.

Contact Information
Primary
Juliette MIQUEL, MD
juliette.miquel@chu-reunion.fr
+262 262 35 90 00
Backup
Camille ESPAGNON, MD
camille.espagnon@laposte.net
Time Frame
Start Date: 2024-08-13
Estimated Completion Date: 2027-12
Participants
Target number of participants: 32
Treatments
No_intervention: Therapeutic education program
Experimental: Therapeutic education program and Hypnosis
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Leads: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de la Réunion

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