Open-label placebos enhance test performance and reduce anxiety in learner drivers: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT: Passing 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. For some learner drivers these feelings can be extreme and negatively affect the performance in the driving test. Different strategies to face anxiety and stress are known, including, for example, psychological or pharmacological approaches and even placebo pills. Recent intriguing findings have also demonstrated that placebos without deception, so-called open-label placebos, successfully reduce anxiety. Here we aimed to test effects of this novel treatment for learner drivers. We investigated whether open-label placebos affect test performance and feelings of anxiety in learner drivers. Sixty-ei

SUBMITTER: Schaefer M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10954622 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature