International Journal of Psychology and Psychiatry

The purpose of this investigation was to assess impact of Hypnotherapy in mitigating the symptoms of anxiety. 50 Participants were selected through accidental sampling from Various Psychiatric clinics of Delhi (India). Educational, Economic and Age related factors treated as control variable. For the obtaining the score on Anxiety, SCAT (Sinha‘s Comprehension Anxiety Test) was used, which has 90 items, based on Yes/No response of participants for anxiety. The Reliability of SCAT is 0.85 (test retest) and Validity is.62 with Taylors manifest anxiety scale The purpose of this investigation was to assess impact of Hypnotherapy in mitigating the symptoms of anxiety. 50 Participants were selected through accidental sampling from Various Psychiatric clinics of Delhi (India). Educational, Economic and Age related factors treated as Educational, Economic and Age related factors treated as control variable. For the obtaining the score on Anxiety, SCAT (Sinha‘s Comprehension Anxiety Test) was used, which has 90 items, based on Yes/No response of participants for anxiety. The Reliability of SCAT is 0.85 (test retest) and Validity is.62 with Taylors manifest anxiety scale. Research was based on Pretest and Posttest research design. Statistically analysis was done by paired t test. Results indicate that the “t” value, 12.01, which is significant at 0.01 level of confidence, shows that Hypnotherapy mitigates the symptoms of Anxiety.