The purpose of this 21-day assessor blinded, randomized-controlled trial was to compare an
open-label placebo (OLP) to treatment as usual (TAU) for cancer survivors with fatigue. This …

Objectives Placebo effects can be clinically meaningful but are seldom fully exploited in
clinical practice. This review aimed to facilitate translational research by producing a …

This chapter provides a synthetic overview of the contemporary debate over the ethics of
placebos and placebo effects in both clinical and research contexts. Section 1 briefly …

Background Contextual factors (CFs) represent a potential therapeutic tool to boost
physiotherapy outcomes, triggering placebo effects. Nevertheless, no evidence about the …

Objectives To explore participants' views regarding clinical use of deceptive placebo (DP)
and open‐label placebo (OLP) treatments. Design Qualitative thematic analysis. Methods …

Background Most physicians sometimes apply therapies without specific active ingredients.
Although patients seem to judge such placebo treatments as acceptable under certain …

Tell Me the Truth and I Will Not Be Harmed: Informed Consents and Nocebo Effects attitude
of the paternalist toward the paternalized, namely, mistrust in the quality of the paternalized …

Background Pain after spine surgery is difficult to manage, often requiring the use of opioid
analgesics. While traditional “deceptive” or concealed placebo has been studied in trials …

Backgrounds: Contextual factors (CFs) have been recently proposed as triggers of placebo
and nocebo effects in musculoskeletal pain. CFs encompass the features of the clinician (eg …

Objectives Despite the increasing knowledge about placebo effects and their beneficial
impact on treatment outcomes, strategies that explicitly employ these mechanisms remain …