Preventing adverse events of chemotherapy for gastrointestinal cancer by educating patients about the nocebo effect: a randomized-controlled trial [PDF]
BMC Cancer, 2021 Background Adverse events of chemotherapy may be caused by pharmacodynamics or psychological factors such as negative expectations, which constitute nocebo effects. In a randomized controlled trial, we examined whether educating patients about the nocebo
Twyla Michnevich +5 more
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Multidisciplinary team intervention to reduce the nocebo effect when switching from the originator infliximab to a biosimilar [PDF]
RMD Open, 2021 Objectives To evaluate an intervention to reduce the nocebo effect (NE) when switching from the originator infliximab (OI) to the infliximab biosimilar SB2 in chronic inflammatory rheumatic disease (CIRD).
Juliette Petit +9 more
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Informing About the Nocebo Effect Affects Patients’ Need for Information About Antidepressants—An Experimental Online Study [PDF]
Front Psychiatry, 2021 Relevance: Understanding patients’ informational needs and adapting drug-related information are the prerequisites for a contextualized informed consent. Current information practices might rather harm by inducing nocebo effects.
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Nonmedical Switching From Originators to Biosimilars: Does the Nocebo Effect Explain Treatment Failures and Adverse Events in Rheumatology and Gastroenterology? [PDF]
Rheumatol Ther, 2020 The act of nonmedical switching, defined as switching stable patients who are generally doing well with their current therapy from an originator biologic to its biosimilar, has been endorsed as a reasonable treatment strategy.
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Unethical informed consent caused by overlooking poorly measured nocebo effects [PDF]
, 2020 Unlike its friendly cousin the placebo effect, the nocebo effect (the effect of expecting a negative outcome) has been almost ignored. Epistemic and ethical confusions related to its existence have gone all but unnoticed.
Howick, Jeremy
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Adverse drug reactions associated with amitriptyline - protocol for a systematic multiple-indication review and meta-analysis [PDF]
, 2020 Background: Unwanted anticholinergic effects are both underestimated and frequently overlooked. Failure to identify adverse drug reactions (ADRs) can lead to prescribing cascades and the unnecessary use of over-thecounter products.
Brueckle, Maria-Sophie +9 more
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Practitioner warmth and empathy attenuates the nocebo effect and enhances the placebo effect.
Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 2023 Augmented patient-practitioner interactions that enhance therapeutic alliance can increase the placebo effect to sham treatment. Little is known, however, about the effect of these interactions on maladaptive health outcomes (i.e., the nocebo effect ...
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Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, 2023 The cost of treating the major inflammatory rheumatic diseases (rheumatoid arthritis and spondyloarthritis) has increased dramatically since the advent of biotherapies (bDMARD).
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The Nocebo Effect: The Placebo’s “Evil Twin”
Frontiers for Young Minds, 2023 Treatments are designed to help people fight diseases or their symptoms, and they are supposed to make us feel better. However, some treatments can have unpleasant side effects.
Helena Hartmann +3 more
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New players in the preventive treatment of migraine. [PDF]
, 2015 Migraine is a common, chronic disorder of the brain causing much disability, as well as personal, familial and societal impact. Several oral preventive agents are available in different countries for the prevention of migraine, but none have performed ...
Mitsikostas, Dimos D, Rapoport, Alan M
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