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Psychobiological Mechanisms of Placebo and Nocebo Effects in the Treatment of Chronic Back Pain

Chronic Lower Back Pain Clinical Trial

Official title:
Psychobiological Mechanisms of Placebo and Nocebo Effects in the Treatment of Chronic Back Pain

Clinical Trial Summary

Placebo and nocebo responses have mainly been studied in healthy humans for pharmacological rather than psychological interventions. Moreover, only few studies examined patients or tested how previous experience and attitudes affect placebo and nocebo responses. On the psychological level expectancy and classical conditioning have been identified as two primary mechanisms. Both seem to be important with classical conditioning potentially having more long-term effects and expectancy being more important in nocebo effects. There is some initial evidence from the investigators own research that patients may be more prone to these effects and the investigators have also shown that placebo effects may last up to several years after treatment. The investigators therefore examine previous attitudes to pharmacological interventions for chronic pain in patients with chronic back pain and subdivide them into groups with high of low belief in the respective treatment modality. The investigators then apply a pharmacological placebo and study the interaction between the prevailing attitude (implicit and explicit) and the placebo effect with respect to pain perception but also to neurobiological mechanisms using functional magnetic resonance imaging. In addition to expectancy, conditioning of placebo will be examined and the long-term effects of the intervention will be determined.

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Study Design

Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Subject), Primary Purpose: Basic Science

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Clinical Trial Details
NCT number NCT02157389
Study type Interventional
Source Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim
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Status Completed
Phase N/A
Start date July 2012
Completion date December 2014
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