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More than consent for ethical open-label placebo research

open access: yesJournal of Medical Ethics, 2020
Recent studies have explored the effectiveness of open-label placebos (OLPs) for a variety of conditions, including chronic pain, cancer-related fatigue and irritable bowel syndrome. OLPs are thought to sidestep traditional ethical worries about placebos because they do not involve deception: with an OLP, patients or subjects are told outright that ...
Laura Specker Sullivan
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Open-label nondeceptive placebo analgesia is blocked by the opioid antagonist naloxone

Pain, 2022
Abstract Open-label placebos, or placebos without deception, have been found to induce analgesia, a challenging concept that need to be investigated in detail. In particular, what we need to know is the mechanism through which analgesia is induced when no deception is involved. In this study, we show for the first time that open-label placebo
Benedetti F.   +3 more
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Open-Label Placebo: Reflections on a Research Agenda

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 2018
Open-label placebos (OLP)-placebo pills honestly prescribed-have challenged the notion that placebos require either deception or concealment to evoke salubrious benefits. This essay describes how the author arrived at the counter-intuitive OLP hypothesis, discusses evidence for OLP effectiveness, and examines mechanistic explanations for OLP.
T. Kaptchuk
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Enthusiastic claims for open-label placebo pills ignore the evidence

Pain, 2020
We have noticed a great deal of enthusiasm for open-label placebos lately. Open-label placebos refer to placebo interventions that are prescribed without either deception or concealment.
Anita B, Amorim   +2 more
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Open-Label Placebo Treatment for Experimental Pain: A Randomized-Controlled Trial with Placebo Acupuncture and Placebo Pills

Journal of Integrative and Complementary Medicine, 2022
Objective: An open-label placebo (OLP) is a placebo treatment in which the patient is aware that the treatment is a placebo. OLPs are considered effective for reducing pain, and previous studies have shown a stronger placebo effect for placebo acupuncture than for placebo pills.
Seoyoung Lee   +4 more
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Why psychotherapy is an open-label placebo and open-label placebos are psychotherapy

2023
Abstract In recent years, placebos have undergone a rapid development from methodological chaff to therapeutic wheat. Hereby, the role of placebos as a deceptive control in clinical trials, as well as negative denomination for anything murky, changed to an innovative promise, an effective as well as ethical treatment.
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Conditioned open-label placebo for opioid reduction after spine surgery: a randomized controlled trial

Evidence-Based Practice, 2022
Placebo effects have traditionally involved concealment or deception. However, recent evidence suggests that placebo effects can also be elicited when prescribed transparently as “open-label placebos” (OLPs), and that the pairing of an unconditioned ...
E. Close, Kaitlyn M. Greer, Brock Mills
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Open-label placebo reduces fatigue in cancer survivors: a randomized trial

Supportive Care in Cancer, 2018
Cancer-related fatigue (CRF) is a common and challenging late effect for many cancer survivors. Clinical trials demonstrate robust placebo effects on CRF in blinded trials. Recently, open-label placebo (OLP) has been shown to improve a variety of symptoms in other populations.
Eric S. Zhou   +5 more
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A Fictionalist Account of Open-Label Placebo

The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: A Forum for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine
Abstract The placebo effect is now generally defined widely as an individual’s response to the psychosocial context of a clinical treatment, as distinct from the treatment’s characteristic physiological effects. Some researchers, however, argue that such a wide definition leads to confusion and misleading implications.
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