4.6 The Placebo Effect
The Power of The Placebo and the Therapeutic Encounter Effect
The placebo effect is a beneficial health outcome resulting from a person’s anticipation that an intervention—pill, procedure, or injection, for example—will help them. A clinician’s style of interacting with patients also may bring about a positive response that is independent of any specific treatment. – Placebo Effect NIH
What Is a Placebo? Q and A with Ted Kaptchuk. Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. NCCIH Ted Kaptchuk talks about the placebo effect and the therapeutic encounter, including the role of placebo in scientific research and what consumers should know about the placebo effect in their health care decision-making.
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References
NCCIH. (2015, December 10). What Is a Placebo? Q and A with Ted Kaptchuk. [Video]. Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qFFcImQzSw
