Providing open-label placebos remotely—A randomized controlled trial in allergic rhinitis
PLoS ONE, 2021 Background Placebos can reduce physical symptoms even when provided with full honesty and disclosure. Yet, the precise mechanisms underlying the effects of “open-label placebos” (OLPs) have remained subject of debate.
T. Kube +3 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 +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 +2 more
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Open-label Placebos for Wound Healing: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 2018 Paul Jarrett +2 more
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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).
Rui-Sheng Wang +21 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 +3 more
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Placebos in clinical care: a suggestion beyond the evidence
Medical Journal of Australia, 2021 The clinical use of placebos is often justified by pointing to their important treatment effects. Proponents have also argued that the placebo effect can be amplified by manipulating the physical appearance of the pill,2 that placebo effects vary across ...
C. Maher +3 more
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Open-label placebos for menopausal hot flushes: a randomized controlled trial
Scientific Reports, 2020 This study investigated the efficacy of an open-label placebo (OLP) treatment for menopausal hot flushes. Women with at least five moderate or severe hot flushes per day were allocated to receive four weeks of OLP for twice a day or no-treatment ...
Yiqi Pan +5 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 +2 more
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Unethical informed consent caused by overlooking poorly measured nocebo effects [PDF]
, 2020 Unlike its friendly cousin the placebo effect, the nocebo effect (the effect of expecting a negative outcome) has been almost ignored. Epistemic and ethical confusions related to its existence have gone all but unnoticed.
Howick, Jeremy
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