Impact of self-hypnosis in women on select physiologic and psychological parameters.

Objective: To examine physiologic and psychologic effects of hypnosis in healthy women.

Design: Quasi-experimental, within-subject, repeated measures.

Setting: Private laboratory setting in an urban Midwestern College of Nursing.

Hypnosis for childbirth: a retrospective comparative analysis of outcomes in one obstetrician's practice.

This exploratory, descriptive study, done retrospectively from perinatal medical records, compared childbirth outcomes in one obstetrician's caseload between 50 women who elected antepartal hypnosis preparation (usually a 5-class series) and 51 who did not. The groups were demographically similar. To achieve similar numbers to the hypnosis group, the control group was randomly selected from the women in the caseload who opted not to take hypnosis preparation, based on characteristics of parity and delivery mode.

Self-hypnosis: alternative anesthesia for childbirth.

The purpose of this article is to inform nurses about the use of self-hypnosis in childbirth. Hypnosis is a focused form of concentration. Self-hypnosis is one form of hypnosis in which a certified practitioner or therapist teaches an individual to induce his or her own state of altered consciousness.