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

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.

Keywords

• covid-19
• hipnoterapia
• gestantes
• adolescentes.