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The Healing Power of Placebos (Coursework Sample)
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("The Healing Power of Placebos")
In 250 words or more answer the following questions:
1. Why are placebo controlled studies commonly used?
2. What problems could arise without the use of placebos?
3. In what type of study do you think placebos should never be used?
4. What type of clinical trial would you consider participating in? Why?
5. Are there any types of clinical trial you would not participate in? Why?
If you or a family member/friend have any experience with clinical trials, please write about it in the essay.
Comment if it was a positive or negative experience.
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DATE \@ "d MMMM yyyy" 19 January 2016
The Healing Power of Placebos
1. Why are placebo-controlled studies commonly used?
The main reason for conducting a placebo-controlled research is to identify its effects and be accountable for it e.g. treatment effects that are not dependent on the treatment itself. Some of the factors considered are: identifying the patient on placebo treatment, having an attention from the relevant health professionals as well as the expected results by the researchers. The treatment cannot be considered to have any effect if it is not compared with a placebo group (Paul 94).
2. What problems could arise without the use of placebos?
The main problem that could be connected with the use of non-placebos drugs is that neither the patient nor the doctor knows the doctors knew which drugs are taken by which patient. Also, lack of expectation to get better by the patient also contributes to more and more negative reactions from the non-placebos medication (Paul 94).
3. In what type of study do you think placebos should never be used?
In cases where a curative therapy is available, placebos controlled trials can never be appropriate to a patient unless there are exceptions that allow the patient to have new treatment such as placebo in line with the potential curative therapy (Sheikh 78).
4. What type of clinical trial would you consider participating in? Why?
In my case they types of clinical trials that I can only participate are: natural clinical trials whereby I only have to provide valuables on the health progress and disease, screening trials whereby tests are made on how to detect the presence of an individual health problem or illness, and quality trials that is aimed at measu...
Instructor’s Name
Course Number
DATE \@ "d MMMM yyyy" 19 January 2016
The Healing Power of Placebos
1. Why are placebo-controlled studies commonly used?
The main reason for conducting a placebo-controlled research is to identify its effects and be accountable for it e.g. treatment effects that are not dependent on the treatment itself. Some of the factors considered are: identifying the patient on placebo treatment, having an attention from the relevant health professionals as well as the expected results by the researchers. The treatment cannot be considered to have any effect if it is not compared with a placebo group (Paul 94).
2. What problems could arise without the use of placebos?
The main problem that could be connected with the use of non-placebos drugs is that neither the patient nor the doctor knows the doctors knew which drugs are taken by which patient. Also, lack of expectation to get better by the patient also contributes to more and more negative reactions from the non-placebos medication (Paul 94).
3. In what type of study do you think placebos should never be used?
In cases where a curative therapy is available, placebos controlled trials can never be appropriate to a patient unless there are exceptions that allow the patient to have new treatment such as placebo in line with the potential curative therapy (Sheikh 78).
4. What type of clinical trial would you consider participating in? Why?
In my case they types of clinical trials that I can only participate are: natural clinical trials whereby I only have to provide valuables on the health progress and disease, screening trials whereby tests are made on how to detect the presence of an individual health problem or illness, and quality trials that is aimed at measu...
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