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Although it is hard to tell exactly if you are given a placebo or not, here are some ways that may help:
Placebo medications usually will not produce side effects. If you are experiencing no side effects while an active medication probably would produce side effects, then you may have received a placebo.
If the desired effects are not occurring, then you may have received a placebo.
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What is a Placebo group?
In medical research, scientists need to know if a new medication is effective; so, during testing, they give one group the actual medication and one group a placebo (a sugar pill, that looks like medicine). Neither group is told which one they are getting. In the end, the hope is that the group that received the medicine will feel much better than the group that just got the placebo. Sometimes, though, there is not much difference, at which point the researchers know the medication probably is not effective enough.
What is the name of an inactive sugar pill?
The word for an inactive medication, used mostly as a blind in clinical trials, is a placebo.
What are the ratings and certificates for Placebo - 2002 I?
Placebo - 2002 I is rated/received certificates of: USA:R
What are the ratings and certificates for Placebo - 2010?
Placebo - 2010 is rated/received certificates of: USA:R
What is an inactive substance used to satisfy a patient's desire for medication?
Could be Placebo
A placebo eases the pain or severity of a disease but does not cure it?
A placebo is a 'pretend' medicine. If you were testing a new pain relief pill, for example, you might prescribe that to 1,000 people and prescribe a harmless placebo (perhaps just sugar made to look like a pill) to another 1,000 patients. One would naturally expect that the first pill eased pain while the placebo did nothing, but because of psychological components etc., it is possible that several patients who received the placebo will claim it did relieve their pain! Strictly, a placebo should do nothing to improve the lot of a patient...
What is a sentence containing the word placebo?
The doctor prescribed a placebo to the patient in order to study the effects of the medication.
What study of a new drug the pill that resembles the drug but contains no medication is called the?
placebo
What are the ratings and certificates for Placebo Androgyny - 2005 V?
Placebo Androgyny - 2005 V is rated/received certificates of: UK:E
A scientist is giving patients a sugar pill that has not medical properties what is this pill called?
A medication given in research that has no medical properties is called a placebo
A placebo is a medication that elicits a positive emotional response in an experimental subject?
Actually, a placebo is a substance or treatment with no therapeutic effect that is used as a control in medical research. It allows researchers to isolate the true effects of a treatment by comparing the results from the actual treatment group to those from the placebo group.
What is a double-blinded study?
I want to know if a medication has the desired effect. I'm going to give half the subjects the 'live' med, and half will get a placebo. The subjects will not know which one they are getting. That's one level of "blind". Studies show that there is a measurable affect based on the fact that the person distributing the med's knows who is getting the med and who is getting the placebo. So I am going to package the med's and give them to the distributing nurse, and the nurse will not know who is getting the med and who is getting the placebo. That is "double blind" model.
