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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-4-27
pubmed:abstractText
The ethics of placebo research have been of paramount concern since the discovery of the phenomenon. To address these ethical concerns, Miller and colleagues (PLoS Med 2005 Sep;2(9):e262, 0853-0859) propose an alternate approach to placebo research, called "authorized deception", in which participants are alerted of the use of deception in the research prior to study enrollment and thus knowingly permit its use if they decide to participate. The present study sought to investigate the authorized deception methodology in experimentally induced placebo analgesia. The participants were randomly assigned to an authorized deception or non-authorized deception group. A commonly used protocol was employed wherein heat pain stimulation was surreptitiously lowered following the application of a placebo cream during a series of conditioning trials and the magnitude of the placebo effect was subsequently assessed in test trials for which the stimulus intensity was the same for both the placebo and control creams. Authorized deception did not have any negative impact on the magnitude of the placebo effect, recruitment and retention of participants, nor did it result in any significant psychological harm. The majority of participants who received this form of consent preferred it to the traditional approach in which the participants are not alerted to the presence of deception. These findings suggest that the use of authorized deception is a viable and ethically preferable alternative consent process for laboratory-based studies on placebo analgesia. Further studies are needed to examine the effect of authorized deception in clinical trials and other placebo research within a clinical setting.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
1872-6623
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
Copyright 2009 International Association for the Study of Pain. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
149
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
208-15
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Inclusion of authorized deception in the informed consent process does not affect the magnitude of the placebo effect for experimentally induced pain.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Psychology, Behavioral Sciences Building, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ont., Canada M3J 1P3. amartin@yorku.ca
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't