Online Medical Hypnosis Exercises to Improve Mental Health in Primary School Children and Prevent Future Mental Health Issues

Condition(s) studied

Investigational drug(s) / intervention(s)

standardized audio hypnosis recordings for healthy children at primary school: 8 different audio hypnosis recordings hat chidlren will listen too at a daily basis (one recording per day)

Study summary

The goal of this trial is to learn if listening daily to online hypnosis exercises helps to improve mental health and self-esteem in primary school children. In the future we also hope to see if it can prevent feelings of depession or anxiety when these children have become teenagers.

The main questions it aims to answer are:

1. can daily listening to these exercsies improve self-esteem, resilience and mental health of children 10-11 years compared to children who do not listen to these exercises?
2. can listening to these exercsies prevent future metal health problems like feelings of depression or anxiety.

Researchers will compare a group of children (10-11 years) who will listen daily to the exercises for 2 months with a group who will do that 6 months later.

Participants will:

Listen daily to a hypnosis exercise of maximum 15 minutes. Fill out questionnaires on self-esteem, resilience and mental health before during and after the study.

Eligibility

Primary outcome measure(s)

• Difference in change in self-esteem between group A and B. — difference between baseline and the end of listening to the exercises at 6 weeks.
  The primary objective is to study the effect of daily listening for 6 weeks to the hypnosis recordings on the change in self-esteem compared to controls 6 weeks after baseline. It will be measured by the Rosenberg Self Esteem scale for Children. This gives a score between 0 to 30 and higher scores mean more self-esteem.

Trial sites (1)

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