Individual Differences in Placebo Analgesic Effects
ConditionHealthy
Trial statusNot yet recruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18-55
SponsorTrustees of Dartmouth College
About this trial
This study examines the effects of placebo suggestions tailored to match or mismatch individual participants' motivational styles-an issue of person-situation 'fit' with important effects in public health settings, but which has been ignored in past research.
Eligibility criteria
Qualifiers
Healthy participants
Dominant promotion focus or dominant prevention focus (based on our screening)
Disqualifiers
Currently or recently suffered from chronic pain (based on screening)
Cannot tolerate heat pain applied to the forearm, based on a calibration task at the beginning of the experiment
Trial design
Treatments tested in this trial
- Placebo cream- "promotion" suggestion
- Placebo cream- "prevention" suggestion
- Control cream
Treatment groups
60 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groupsSponsors and collaborators
Source ClinicalTrials.gov