Hypnotherapy in pregnant adolescents with psychic symptoms due to the pandemic of COVID-19

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Keywords:

COVID-19, hypnotherapy, pregnant women, adolescents.

Abstract

Introduction: The COVID-19 has had a negative psychological impact in a large part of the world population, including pregnant adolescents as vulnerable group.

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of the hypnotherapeutic pattern applied to pregnant adolescents.

Methods: An hypnotherapeutic quasi-experimental intervention, was carried out in the 15 pregnant adolescents with psychological symptoms caused by the impact of the pandemic of COVID-19 who were admitted in the Eastern Nutritional Maternal Home in Santiago de Cuba, from April to June, 2020. The study group was its own control group.

Results: Of the 15 patients, 5 corresponded to the 10-14 age group and the rest of the patients, to the 15-19 age group. As for the results of the self-evaluation scale, before the treatment 11 pregnant women had high levels of anxiety, for a 73.3 %, and after receiving the hipnosis, these levels lowered in 13 of them, for a 86.7 %.

Conclusions: The hypnotherapy in pregnant women with psychological symptoms due to the COVID-19 was effective, because it facilitated a clinical improvement in these women.

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Adolfo Rafael Lambert Delgado, Hospital Infantil Docente Norte Dr. Juan de la Cruz Martínez Maceira, Universidad de Ciencias Médicas. Santiago de Cuba

Profesor Asistente, Especialista de II grado en MGI y de I Grado en Psiquiatría Infanto Juvenil. Máster en MNT, Diplomado en Hipnosis Terapéutica.  Subdirector de la Clínica de la Hipnosis de la UCM-SC, PPresidnete de la Asociacion Panamericana y Caribeña de Hipnosis Terpéutica. Decano de a Facultad Preparatoria

Alberto Erconvaldo Cobián Mena, Facultad de Medicina No. 1, Universidad de Ciencias Médicas. Santiago de Cuba

Profesor Titular y Emérito  de la UCM-SC. Psicólogo de la Salud, Doctor en Ciencias de la Salud, Máster en MNT, Diplomado en Hipnosis Terapéutica

 Jefe del Departamento de Psicología Médica Facultad de Medicina 1, Presidente de la Sooooooooooociedad Cubana de PPPPPPPPsicología de la Salud. Presidente Fundador de la Asociacion Panamericana y Caribeña de Psicología de la Salud

Yamet Silva Albear, Hogar Materno Nutricional Este. Santiago de Cuba

Psicóloga de la Salud, Instructor en Psicología, Master en MNT, Especialista Principal de Psicología del HMNE. MImbro NUmerario de la SCPS

Michel Torres Leyva, Policlínico Docente Armando García Aspurú, Universidad de Ciencias Médicas. Santiago de Cuba

Médico General. Residente de Neurofisiología

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2021-02-10

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Lambert Delgado AR, Cobián Mena AE, Silva Albear Y, Torres Leyva M. Hypnotherapy in pregnant adolescents with psychic symptoms due to the pandemic of COVID-19. MEDISAN [Internet]. 2021 Feb. 10 [cited 2025 Jun. 3];25(1):66-80. Available from: https://medisan.sld.cu/index.php/san/article/view/3360

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Vol. 25 No. 1 (2021): ENERO-FEBRERO

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