Dr. Lang to Present at SCEH 2020
Dr. Lang is excited to be presenting at this year’s annual SCEH meeting taking place online October 14-18 2020 . See below for details!
Sunday, October 18, 2020 – 11:05-11:25 AM PDT (2:05-2:25 EDT) What Makes an App “Hypnotic” and Effective for Pain Management?
Despite an explosion of mobile offerings for management of pain and anxiety, the evidence for effectiveness is scarce. Placebo-controlled trials are the most desirable, but designing inactive apps can be challenging. For a prospective randomized clinical trial with 72 patients in a craniofacial pain center, we created one app with hypnotic (H) and one with white noise (WN) content for use with iOS and Android systems, using the same internal architecture and looks. Both H apps by themselves and in comparison to the WN group significantly reduced pain and anxiety during the waiting room time. The Android WN app significantly reduced anxiety, but not pain. The iOs WN app was the only true control app affecting neither pain nor anxiety. Usage analysis revealed that different default approaches of the iOs and Android devices accounted for the difference of results.
Elvira V. Lang, MD, PhD, Hypnalgesics, LLC, Brookline, MA, USA; Paul Senn, EdM, MSCMHC, Hypnalgesics, LLC, Brookline, MA, USA; William Jackson, PhD, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA; Grahm Conway, BS, Hypnalgesics, LLC, Brookline, MA, USA; Thomas Corino, BA, Hypnalgesics, LLC, Brookline, MA, USA; Aroni Donavon-Khosrow, DMD, MS, Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, Boston, MA, USA; Matthew D. Finkelman, PhD, Tufts University School of Dental Medicine and Ronald J. Kulich, PhD, Tufts University School of Dental Medicine SCEH 2020Conference BrochureDetails & registration: www.sceh.us/2020-annual-conferencePage41Scientific Program