Open-Label Placebo Treatment: Outcome Expectations and General Acceptance in the Lay Population.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Most physicians sometimes apply therapies without specific active ingredients. Although patients seem to judge such placebo treatments as acceptable under certain circumstances, deception is still an ethical problem. Open-label placebos (OLPs) might be a promising approach to solve this dilemma. This study compared general acceptance and outcome expectations of OLPs and deceptive placebos (DPs).

Methods

In an experimental online study, 814 participants read a case vignette of a person with insomnia receiving a pill. The participants were then randomly allocated into two groups, where the second part of the vignette described the pill as either a deceptive placebo (DP group) or as an open-label placebo (OLP group). The Credibility/Expectancy Questionnaire (CEQ) ass

SUBMITTER: Haas JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8263407 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature