Placebos in Healthcare: A Behavioral Study on How Treatment Responsiveness Affects Therapy Decisions in a Simulated Patient–Physician Interaction [PDF]
Clinics and PracticeBackground and Purpose: Treatment choice during clinical practice is crucial to best help each patient. One of the physicians’ main goals is choosing a personalized effective treatment, but it also represents a challenging issue.
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Placebo Effects on the Enjoyment of Physical Activity and Performance among Kindergarten Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial [PDF]
European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and EducationStudies with adults and school children have shown that placebos can enhance motivation and performance in physical activities. This study aimed to investigate whether similar effects are present in kindergarten-aged children. A total of 101 children (58
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Noble Humbug? Hard and soft laws on clinical placebo use [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyDespite the widespread historical and contemporary use of placebos in medicine, legal regulations addressing their administration remain limited in many countries.
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Open-label placebos reduce weight in obesity: a randomized controlled trial [PDF]
Scientific ReportsObesity is a major public health problem worldwide. Different approaches are known to face this problem, for example, dieting, surgery, or drug interventions. It has also been shown that placebos may help to reduce weight and hunger feelings, but the use
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Open-label placebos enhance test performance and reduce anxiety in learner drivers: a randomized controlled trial [PDF]
Scientific ReportsPassing the driving school test can be very challenging, especially in big cities, where up to 52% of all students fail this test. Consequently, many learner drivers experience stress and anxiety.
Michael Schaefer, Sören Enge
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12 Time to Sustained Recovery between Oral Tablet and Inhaler Placebos in the ACTIV-6 Platform Clinical Trial [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Translational ScienceOBJECTIVES/GOALS: Platform trials gain efficiency by sharing placebo controls among different study arms. However, the varying routes of administration make it unclear whether participants exposed to different placebos have similar outcomes.
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The Lancet, 2005 Abstract Placebo, used here to mean an inert treatment given as if it was a real treatment, means lots of different things to different people. The structure of the article is that it begins by talking about the technical use of placebos in clinical trials, and the extent of the placebo response, then about the mechanism—“How does the ...
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Would You Take an Open-Label Placebo Pill or Give One to Your Child? Findings from a Cross-Sectional Survey [PDF]
Psychology Research and Behavior ManagementAnne Schienle, Arved Seibel Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Graz, Graz, AustriaCorrespondence: Anne Schienle, Email anne.schienle@uni-graz.atBackground: Open-label placebos (OLPs), honestly prescribed regarding their inert nature, have ...
Schienle A, Seibel A
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When and why placebo-prescribing is acceptable and unacceptable: a focus group study of patients' views. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Surveys of doctors suggest that they use placebos and placebo effects clinically to help patients. However, patients' views are not well-understood.
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Frontiers in Pain Research, 2022 Background and Aims: Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a functional pain disorder of gut-brain interactions, is characterized by a high placebo response in randomized clinical trials (RCTs).
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