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Placebo use in the United Kingdom: results from a national survey of primary care practitioners [PDF]

, 2013
Objectives: Surveys in various countries suggest 17% to 80% of doctors prescribe ‘placebos’ in routine practice, but prevalence of placebo use in UK primary care is unknown.Methods: We administered a web-based questionnaire to a representative sample of ...
Stevens, Sarah, Wolstenholme Jane, Louhiala, Pekka, Sarah Stevens, Hemilä, Harri, Bishop, F.L, George Lewith, Hobbs F. D. Richard, Hobbs, F.D.R., Carl Heneghan, Stevens Sarah, Jeremy Howick, Lewith, George T., Felicity L Bishop, F D Richard Hobbs, Heneghan, C., Wolstenholme, J., Bishop Felicity L., Howick, J., Howick Jeremy, Heneghan Carl, Puustinen, Raimo, Lewith George, Jane Wolstenholme, F. D. Richard Hobbs, Felicity L. Bishop   +25 more
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Placebo and the law of identification

Frontiers in Psychiatry
Thousands of essays and studies have been published on placebo and nocebo. Yet, despite this plethora of information, we are not much closer to a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental mechanism producing placebo and nocebo effects than we were ...
Steve F. Bierman, Andrew Weil, Stephen Dahmer   +2 more
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Drug*placebo interaction effect may bias clinical trials interpretation: hybrid balanced placebo and randomized placebo-controlled design

BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2016
Background Conventional randomized placebo-controlled study design assumes the absence of drug*placebo interaction. We hypothesized the presence of such an interaction and that conventionally estimated drug effect might be biased.
Muhammad M. Hammami, Safa Hammami, Reem Al-Swayeh, Eman Al-Gaai, Faduma Abdi Farah, Sophia J. S. De Padua   +5 more
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Patients’ experiences treated with open-label placebo versus double-blind placebo: a mixed methods qualitative study

BMC Psychology, 2022
Background There is increasing evidence suggesting that open-label placebo (OLP) is an effective treatment for several medical conditions defined by self-report.
Julia W. Haas, Giulio Ongaro, Eric Jacobson, Lisa A. Conboy, Judy Nee, Johanna Iturrino, Vikram Rangan, Anthony Lembo, Ted J. Kaptchuk, Sarah Ballou   +9 more
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Suggestive Preparation of Patients using Intravenous Ketoprofen as a Part of Postoperative Pain Management in Elective Abdominal Surgery

Acta Clinica Croatica, 2023
Suggestive preparation before surgery may have a placebo effect and can reduce perioperative consumption of analgesics. A total of 77 adult patients undergoing elective cholecystectomy and hernioplasty were included in this prospective study.
Anja Petričević, Dino Budrovac, Ivana Lenz, Slavica Kvolik   +3 more
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A transferable anxiolytic placebo effect from noise to negative effect

, 2015
Background: The placebo effect in relieving negative emotion arousal is poorly understood.Aims: We examined whether placebo expectation established with noise stimuli could have a transferable anxiolytic effect on negative emotion arousal.Methods: In ...
Zhang, Jianxin, Zhang, Wencai, Yuan, Lizhuang, Zhao, Yili, Luo, Jing, Guo, Jianyou   +5 more
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The placebo effect in sport: How practitioners can inject words to improve performance

, 2020
Placebo effects are a complex interplay between an intervention* and factors associated with the administration of that intervention, such as expectations, previous experiences and interactions between participant and researcher.1 While researchers often
Roelands, B., Hurst, P., Bart Roelands, Philip Hurst   +3 more
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Study of the placebo effect with a placebo test

Comprehensive Psychiatry, 1968
Summary This paper briefly reviewed several methodological problems in studies of the placebo effect. The importance of finding appropriate measures of placebo effect was emphasized. This led to an attempt to develop a more valid and reliable test of placebo reactivity.
A K, Shapiro, H, Wilensky, E L, Struening   +2 more
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The Hawthorne Effect: a randomised, controlled trial [PDF]

, 2007
Background: The 'Hawthorne Effect' may be an important factor affecting the generalisability of clinical research to routine practice, but has been little studied.
Griffin, M, Iliffe Steve, McCarney Rob, Robbert van Haselen, Griffin Mark, Iliffe, S, Fisher Peter, Warner James, Fisher, P, van Haselen Robbert, Warner, J, Mark Griffin, McCarney, R, James Warner, van Haselen, R, Peter Fisher, Steve Iliffe, Rob McCarney   +17 more
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Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
wiley   +1 more source