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Open-label placebos reduce weight in obesity: a randomized controlled trial [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Obesity 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
Michael Schaefer, Anja Kühnel, Sören Enge   +2 more
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Effects of Open-Label Placebos on State Anxiety and Glucocorticoid Stress Responses

Brain Sciences, 2021
Stress belongs to the most frequent negative feelings people are confronted with in daily life. Strategies against acute stress include, e.g., relaxation techniques or medications, but it is also known that placebos can successfully reduce negative ...
Michael Schaefer, Julian Hellmann-Regen, Sören Enge   +2 more
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A randomized controlled trial of effects of open-label placebo compared to double-blind placebo and treatment-as-usual on symptoms of allergic rhinitis

Scientific Reports, 2023
Placebo effects are known for numerous clinical symptoms. Until recently, deception of placebos was thought to be essential for placebo effects, but intriguing new studies suggest that even placebos without concealment (open-label placebos) may help ...
Michael Schaefer, Kurt Zimmermann, Paul Enck   +2 more
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Placebo use in the United kingdom: results from a national survey of primary care practitioners. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
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.We administered a web-based questionnaire to a representative sample of UK general ...
Jeremy Howick, Felicity L Bishop, Carl Heneghan, Jane Wolstenholme, Sarah Stevens, F D Richard Hobbs, George Lewith   +6 more
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Perception and practice of placebo use among physicians in Mangalore

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2020
Background: Placebo use falls under two contexts: clinical care and research. In today's pharmacological era where treatment is available for almost all illnesses, there exists a lot of questions about the perceived efficacy and usage of placebos.
Ravinder Singh Aujla, Ritika Agarwal, Smriti Sinha, Avinash Kumar   +3 more
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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.
Felicity L Bishop, Lizzi Aizlewood, Alison E M Adams   +2 more
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Teoría de la complejidad en la atención del paciente con dolor musculoesquelético

Biomédica: revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2022
Los sistemas no lineales no son susceptibles de ser investigados con métodos reduccionistas. En este sentido, la teoría de la complejidad ofrece un enfoque alternativo para cuantificar la importancia de los factores contextuales en el paciente con dolor ...
Mauro Andreu, Pablo Policastro, Tatiana Díias, Yolanda Pardo   +3 more
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Genomic Effects Associated With Response to Placebo Treatment in a Randomized Trial of Irritable Bowel Syndrome

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).
Rui-Sheng Wang, Rui-Sheng Wang, Anthony J. Lembo, Anthony J. Lembo, Ted J. Kaptchuk, Ted J. Kaptchuk, Vivian Cheng, Judy Nee, Judy Nee, Johanna Iturrino, Johanna Iturrino, Meenakshi Rao, Meenakshi Rao, Joseph Loscalzo, Joseph Loscalzo, Jocelyn A. Silvester, Jocelyn A. Silvester, Jocelyn A. Silvester, Jocelyn A. Silvester, Kathryn T. Hall, Kathryn T. Hall, Kathryn T. Hall   +21 more
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Are Sham Acupuncture Interventions More Effective than (Other) Placebos? A Re-Analysis of Data from the Cochrane Review on Placebo Effects [PDF]

, 2010
Background and Objective: A recent Cochrane review on placebo interventions for all kinds of conditions found that `physical placebos' (which included sham acupuncture) were associated with larger effects over no-treatment control groups than ...
Linde, Klaus, Meissner, Karin, Niemann, Karin   +2 more
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Relieving pain using dose-extending placebos [PDF]

, 2016
Placebos are often used by clinicians, usually deceptively and with little rationale or evidence of benefit, making their use ethically problematic. In contrast with their typical current use, a provocative line of research suggests that placebos can be ...
Colloca, Luana, DeGrazia, David, Enck, Paul   +2 more
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