Background Practitioners who enhance how they express empathy and create positive
expectations of benefit could improve patient outcomes. However, the evidence in this area …

Background and objective Communication between patients and health care practitioners is
expected to benefit health outcomes. The objective of this review was to assess the effects of …

Language is powerful and can have a strong impact on perceptions as well as behavior. A
task force, consisting of representatives from the American Association of Diabetes …

METHODS Healthy parturients at term requesting labor epidural analgesia or nonlaboring
parturients presenting for elective cesarean delivery under spinal anesthesia were included …

Fear of pain (FOP) and its effect on placebo analgesia was investigated. It was hypothesized
that FOP should interfere with placebo-mediated pain inhibition and result in weaker …

Fear was induced by the anticipation of electric shock in order to investigate whether fear
reduced the effectiveness of a placebo intervention on reported pain and the acoustic startle …

Nocebo hyperalgesia has received sparse experimental attention compared to placebo
analgesia. The aim of the present study was to investigate if personality traits and fear of …

Objective To investigate how empathic communication is expressed in interpreter-mediated
consultations (IMCs) and the interpreter's effect on it. Methods We coded 20 authentic video …

Objective. The goal of this study was to understand how adults with diabetes experience the
words used in diabetes care. Methods. This qualitative study guided by Critical Theory used …

The aim of this review is to summarize data published on the use of perioperative hypnosis
in patients undergoing breast cancer surgery (BCS). Indeed, the majority of BCS patients …