Online Medical Hypnosis Exercises to Improve Mental Health in Primary School Children and Prevent Future Mental Health Issues
St. Antonius Hospital
345 participants
Jul 31, 2025
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
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
Inclusion Criteria4
- Fluent in Dutch
- Attending group 6 or 7 of a regular primary school in the Netherlands
- Permission of the parents to listen daily to one of the Breinbaas hypnosis exercises (maximum 20 minutes per day)
- Access to an electronic device to listen to the Breinbaas exercises (phone, tablet, computer) -
Exclusion Criteria3
- A potential subject who meets any of the following criteria will be excluded from participation in this study:
- Children treated with hypnotherapy in the three years preceding potential inclusion
- Children currently receiving psychological treatment
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Interventions
8 different audio hypnosis recordings hat chidlren will listen too at a daily basis (one recording per day)
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NCT07157358