Effects of Open- and Closed-Label Nocebo and Placebo Suggestions on Itch and Itch Expectations.

Front Psychiatry · 2019 · PMC6598628 · PMID 31293458

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In the same direction, marginally significant medium-sized effects of verbal suggestions on skin temperature increase were found in the open-label [ F (1,41) = 3.01, p = .090, Cohen’s d = 0.54] and closed-label groups [ F (1,43) = 2.93, p = .094, Cohen’s d = 0.52], respectively.

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