The goal is to put the participants' medical views to the test. The placebo effect is the name given to this psychological phenomenon. Patients' conviction that they are receiving therapy, according to psychologists, plays a significant part in their recovery from the condition. The idea that one is receiving therapy has been proven in numerous studies to have a significant role in the recovery from an illness. Because the patients in the placebo group are unaware that they are not receiving any therapy, these studies are referred to as blinded trials.
In research, there are several types of placebo designs.
In research, there are two types of placebo designs:
There is a placebo group and an experimental group in one design.
There is a placebo group, an experimental group, and a control group in the other form of placebo design in research. The experimenter chooses whether to choose each group at random or in a non-random manner.
Issues in conducting a placebo study
A placebo design is not as simple to carry out as it may appear. In principle, the investigator administers an inert tablet to the placebo group. It is difficult to offer an intervention to an inactive placebo group in practical research when examining human behavior. Even if no consequences are intended, every intervention will have some influence on the audience. The effect of the placebo intervention on the audience is difficult to regulate. The placebo intervention, on the other hand, will have an effect on the audience, but the goal should be for these placebo treatments to remain inactive in respect to the hypothesis being investigated.
Concerns about the use of placebos
The use of placebo design in medical and psychological research has recently raised serious ethical problems. Because the target audiences are human people, two issues arise: first, the audience is unaware that they are not receiving any therapy, and second, the audience is unaware that they are not receiving any treatment. To address this problem, participants are informed before to the research that they may or may not get therapy.
One is that the audience is unaware that they are not receiving therapy; to address this, the audience is informed before to the research that they may or may not get treatment. Although this decreases the placebo's real impact, it also reduces the scientists' ethical worries for conducting such experiments. Second, the investigator cannot apply an inert therapy on one group in the case of significant sickness. In the event of a major sickness, the investigator substitutes the placebo group's existing therapy with the inactive treatment. In medical science, achieving a control group that receives no treatment at all is also difficult.
There are certain difficulties that have been addressed in the best way feasible, but there are still others that need to be addressed in the placebo research design.
EDITOR'S SOURCE: Research Materials For Final Year Students
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