Comparing the Effectiveness of Hypnosis and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) on the Management of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Abstract

Background: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is prevalent in youngsters, teenagers, and grown-ups. It can happen alone or in comorbidity with different disarranges. A wide scope of psychotherapies, for example, hypnosis and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) has been produced for PTSD treatment.

Objectives: In this study, we compare the effectiveness of hypnosis and cognitive-behavioral therapy in reducing post-traumatic stress disorder.

Methods: This research is done in the form of an experimental method. The research design is pre-test - post-test with a control group. The target population in this study consisted of 370 war veterans. The sample of the study consisted of 191 people who were randomly selected and answered the PTSD Checklist (PCL). Of the 86 respondents who achieved the highest score from the PCL questionnaire, 60 were randomly selected and divided into two experimental and one control group. One of the experimental groups; received 8 sessions of the CBT treatment and, the other group received 8 sessions Hypnosisand and the control group continued their usual treatment. After the treatment sessions, post-test was taken from all participants. Data were analyzed by using ANCOVA in SPSS version 21.

Results: The results showed that there is a significant difference between the Hypnosis and CBT groups (P <0.01). There was also a significant difference between the control and the CBT groups as well as hypnosis (P <0.01).

Conclusions The aftereffects of the current examination indicated that hypnosis and cognitive behavioral therapy are successful in decreasing post-traumatic stress disorder. We additionally found that hypnosis  is more effective than CBT.