The Effect of Hypnotherapy on Pain Intensity in Postoperative Patients: A Systematic Review

Background: Pain is a common problem in patients undergoing surgery. The constant postoperative acute pain can affect the physiological and psychological aspects of the patient.Objective: Non-pharmacological therapy is widely used for the treatment of chronic pain. Non-pharmacological therapy needs to be developed in acute postoperative pain due to concerns about the side effects of pharmacological treatment. There is non-pharmacological management that effectively reduces pain intensity, namely hypnotherapy.Methods: The systematic search for this review used the Google Scholar database, Directory of Open Access Journal (DOAJ), ProQuest, and PubMed using keywords (Hypnosis OR Hypnotism OR Hypnoanalysis OR Hypnotherapy OR Hypnotherapies OR Mesmerism) AND (Post-surgical Pain OR Post surgical Pain OR Postsurgical Pain OR Post-operative Pain OR Post operative Pain OR Post-operative Pains OR Postoperative Pain OR Acute Postoperative Pain OR Acute Post-operative Pain OR Acute Post operative Pain). The quality of journals was assessed using the Critical Appraisal Skills Program (CASP) instrument. The synthesis method used was narrative synthesis (narrative synthesis).Results: 10 articles were fully reviewed from 2010-2020. The visualization technique with rapid conversational induction has the best effect than other techniques. The most effective way of conveying suggestions is indirect with a permissive approach. The study results showed that hypnotherapy tended to reduce postoperative pain in minor surgical procedures than in major surgeries.Conclusion: Hypnotherapy affects reducing the pain intensity of postoperative patients. The results of this study recommend that hypnotherapy suggestions and pain measures must be tailored to the patient's condition.

Software—A New Open Access Journal on Software Engineering

Software (ISSN: 2674-113X) [...]

Introducing Sensors & Diagnostics

It is with great pleasure that we introduce Sensors & Diagnostics, a new gold open access journal by the Royal Society of Chemistry dedicated to promoting research on innovative sensors, systems, devices, and technology for diagnostics and other applications.

Into the second decade

Open Biology is 10 years old and we have much to celebrate. Open Biology launched as the Royal Society's first fully online, open access journal dedicated to cell and molecular biology. The underlying principle of Open Biology is to enable discoveries to be quickly and easily disseminated through the community, and in this vein in the first 10 years of the journal we have introduced format-free submission, mandated open peer review where the reviews and author responses are published with the paper, and established our enthusiastic Preprint Team under the guidance of Prof. Michael Ginger. Credit for most of this success is due to the guiding hand of David Glover, our founding editor, and the team at Royal Society Publishing.

Birth and Developing of Mongolian Geoscientist journal

Since the publication of the first issue of Mongolian Geoscientist, in October 1996, 25 years have passed and the journal has successfully evolved over a quarter of a century into a periodical publication well-known also outside the borders of Mongolia. Background and episodes of early publications were reviewed by Y.Takahashi, N.Ichinnorov, and S.Jargalan, who were members of the JICA-IGMR project. The present status of Mongolian Geoscientist is that of an internationally peer-reviewed, open-access journal, published by the School of Geology and Mining Engineering, Mongolian University of Science and Technology, with support from the Geological Society of Mongolia; managed by Editor-in-Chief B.Batkhishig, Consultant Editorial Board member O.Gerel, and Associate Editors B.Munkhtsengel, B.Altanzul, and Kh.Tseedulam.

International Journal of KIU Volume (2) Issue (2) December 2021

International Journal of KIU is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary open access journal published online and bi-annually in print version. The Journal provides a research platform for the researchers and practitioners in all regions of the world thus contributing new insights into current and emerging concepts, theories, research and practice through diverse disciplines. The Journal maintains high quality standards by exercising peer review and editorial quality control. Facts and opinions in articles published on International Journal of KIU are solely the personal statements of respective authors. Authors are responsible for all contents in their article(s) including accuracy of the facts, statements, citing resources, and so on. International Journal of KIU and editors disclaim any liability of violations of other parties’ rights, or any damage incurred therefore to use or apply any of the contents of the International Journal of KIU. Material submitted to International Journal of KIU considered to be original and not published or submitted for publication elsewhere. All rights reserved by International Journal of KIU. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior permission in writing from the copyright holder. Special requests should be addressed to [email protected]

Acknowledgement

We sincerely thank to the journal Editors and Invited Reviewers of our open access volumes No 50, 51 and 52. They are the people who make an internationally peer reviewed, open access journal. Reviewer’s helpful and constructive comments led to improvement in each manuscript and successful volumes.

APPRECIATION TO THE EDITORIAL BOARD, AUTHORS, REVIEWERS, AND THE EDITORIAL STAFF FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE "PROCEEDINGS OF THE SHEVCHENKO SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY" FOR THE YEARS 2020-2021

Dear Reader! We express our sincere appreciation to all the authors, reviewers, members of the editorial board, and the editorial staff for their tireless contributions during these difficult years 2020-2021. The preparation of each issue of "The Proceedings of the Shevchenko Scientific Society: Medical Sciences” ensures its continuing development. The Journal is accepted by the Content Selection & Advisory Board of Scopus to the international indexing Scopus; to the international catalog of journals Ulrichsweb & Ulrichs; and to the Norsk Center for Forsknings data. As an open-access journal that undergoes peer review, the Editors have received multiple manuscripts from multiple countries. Information from the website shows that we had readers in 134 countries.