Abstract

PAVON CRUZ, Mariela; PUIG RAVINAL, Luis; CUAN CORRALES, Miriam  and  LABRADA SALVAT, Manuel. Alternative phychological treatments for determining complicated digital fingersucking habit. AMC [online]. 2002, vol.6, n.4, pp.398-404. ISSN 1025-0255.

A clinical, controlled, open phase II study in seven to eleven years old children of both sexes, listed in elementary schools of Joaquín Agüero district in Camagüey city from 1998-1999 was carried out with the aim of determining the effectiveness of treatment with direct suggestion, group dynamic or suggestion in hypnosis to suppress complicated digital fingersucking habit. Sixty suckers were selected as to age and sex in stratified, ramdomized way; three groups of 20 children were formed for each treatment, and evolved in one and six months. Better results were found with the suggestion and hypnosis method.

Keywords : FINGERSUCKING [psychology]; FINGERSUCKING [terapy]; PSYCHOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ALTERNATIVES THERAPIES.

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