Identifying placebo responders and predictors of response in osteoarthritis: a protocol for individual patient data meta-analysis [PDF]
Background The management of osteoarthritis (OA) is unsatisfactory, as most treatments are not clinically effective over placebo and most drugs have considerable side effects. On average, 75 % of the analgesic effect from OA treatments in clinical trials
Yu Fu +9 more
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Informed consent and placebo effects: a content analysis of information leaflets to identify what clinical trial participants are told about placebos [PDF]
BackgroundPlacebo groups are used in randomised clinical trials (RCTs) to control for placebo effects, which can be large. Participants in trials can misunderstand written information particularly regarding technical aspects of trial design such as ...
Adams, Alison E.M. +3 more
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IntroductionPlacebo responsiveness is highly variable across individuals. In the domain of pain, it may range from pronounced hypoalgesia to no response at all.
Helena Hartmann +5 more
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European Headache Federation recommendations for placebo and nocebo terminology
Background and aim Despite recent publications, practitioners remain unfamiliar with the current terminology related to the placebo and nocebo phenomena observed in clinical trials and practice, nor with the factors that modulate them.
Dimos D. Mitsikostas +17 more
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Placebo Effects on Stress, but Not on Pain Reports. A Multi-Experiment Study
BackgroundContextual factors, such as participant/experimenter sex may moderate the placebo effects. We tested whether the participant and experimenter sex modulated placebo effects on experimentally induced pain and associated stress.ObjectiveTo ...
Sara Magelssen Vambheim +2 more
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Frontal alpha asymmetry: A potential biomarker of approach-withdrawal motivation towards pain
Pain-related catastrophising is a maladaptive coping strategy known to have a strong influence on clinical pain outcomes and treatment efficacy. Notwithstanding, little is known about its neurophysiological correlates.
Bárbara Silva-Passadouro +8 more
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On the Relationship Between Pain Variability and Relief in Randomized Clinical Trials
Previous research reports suggest greater baseline variability is associated with greater pain relief in those who receive a placebo. However, studies that evidence this association do not control for confounding effects from regression to the mean and ...
Siddharth R. Tiwari +5 more
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Antidepressant drugs and the response in the placebo group: the real problem lies in our understanding of the issue [PDF]
In a recent paper, Horder and colleagues (Horder et al., 2010, J Psychopharmacol 25: 1277–1288) have suggested that the mainproblem in the Kirsch analysis is methodological. We argue that the results are similar irrespective of the method used.
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Efficacy and safety of secukinumab administration by autoinjector in patients with psoriatic arthritis: results from a randomized, placebo-controlled trial (FUTURE 3) [PDF]
Background: The study aimed to assess 52-week efficacy and safety of secukinumab self-administration by autoinjector in patients with active psoriatic arthritis (PsA) in the FUTURE 3 study (ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01989468).
Andersson, Mats +11 more
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Neural Predictors of the Antidepressant Placebo Response
The antidepressant placebo response remains a barrier to the development of novel therapies for depression, despite decades of efforts to identify and methodologically address its clinical correlates.
Danielle Rette +3 more
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