Effects of the Hypnosis in Patients Infected by the HIV

A pilot study carried out under quantitative strategy with clinical experimental character. Testing evaluation pretest-retest in order to measure the effect of relaxation by means of the hypnosis. The sample consisted of 22 subjects in a group control and an experimental group, standardized in male subjects between 20 and 50 years old, HIV carriers without any acute or chronic disorders that might interfere the relaxation treatment, with a basic level of under-standing and expressed willingness to the fulfilment of the regularity of the meetings of the treatment. Aims: adjustment of variables, monitoring of the behaviour of the experimental variable on the immune system, on the affective-emotional changes and the setting up of new experimental models.

Author(s): Jose Ramon Ponce

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