Example 1: Sometimes, patients with certain ailments show signs of recovery after having a placebo medication if they are unaware that the medicine is a fake. The placebo does not necessarily have to be a drug, it could also be in the form of special diets, exercise regimens, physical thera...
In a placebo-controlled study of Plenity in 436 overweight or obese adults, the primary endpoint was achieved with 59% of adults in the treatment group achieving weight loss of 5% or greater after six months. There were no statistical differences in side effects between treatment groups, which ...
METHODS: Two randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies -- the Active Ulcerative Colitis Trials 1 and 2 (ACT 1 and ACT 2, respectively) -- evaluated the efficacy of infliximab for induction and maintenance therapy in adults with ulcerative colitis. In each study, 364 patients with ...
What does manipulated variable mean? What variables must be included in a testable hypothesis? What is test validity? What is bioenergetics testing? What is a randomized double-blind placebo controlled study? What is a positive control? What did the oil drop experiment prove?
Does spirulina cause weight gain? Spirulina is a high-nutrient, low-calorie food that contains a lot of nutrition in a small amount of powder. Introducing spirulina to the diet may help people lose weight without losing nutrition. The results of a 2016 double-blind placebo-controlled trial sugg...
When running a randomized controlled trial (RCT), a clinical site may face a situation when an eligible trial participant is to be randomized to the treatment that is not available at the site. In this case, there are two options: not to enroll the parti
Effect of esomeprazole 40 mg once or twice daily on asthma: a randomized, placebo-controlled study. During the 2-week run-in period, patients were required to have symptoms of asthma and of GERD, as described above, and no study medication, except ... TO Kiljander,O Junghard,O Beckman,...
Who discovered the placebo effect? Is there a reverse placebo effect? Does the placebo effect work? What does it mean to have a high rate placebo effect? How long does the placebo effect last? Does the placebo effect have side effects? How does the placebo effect affect pain? Does the pl...
The term "statistical significance" often pops up in research and data analysis, but what does it actually mean? At its core, statistical significance is a way to express how confident you can be that your findings are not just a fluke. It’s like a stamp of reliability on your results,...
of a different group of students from a writing class would not likely have the same mean and standard deviation. Similarly, samples taken from the placebo-fed control group of a drug test and those taken from the drug-prescribed group should have a slightly different mean and standard ...