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dc.contributor.authorLiodden, Ingrid Elisabeth
dc.contributor.authorPripp, Are Hugo
dc.contributor.authorNorheim, Arne Johan
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-14T12:26:52Z
dc.date.available2019-03-14T12:26:52Z
dc.date.issued2018-06-14
dc.description.abstract<i>Background</i>: Patients entering a treatment have expectancy to outcome based on their previous experience, the information received, and the credibility of the treatment. Once the treatment has started, patients may detect and interpret contextual cues and somatic state. Influenced and conditioned by positive or negative interpretations, their reappraisal may improve or worsen the treatment outcome. The aims were to investigate whether parental pre-treatment expectancies towards acupuncture differ compared to post-treatment expectancies, and assess predictors for possible change of parental expectancy. Further, we wanted to explore whether the change correlates with the treatment outcome, i.e. postoperative vomiting in children.<p> <p><i>Methods</i>: Two hundred and eighty-two parents completed per- and 24 h postoperatively a survey on their expectancy to acupuncture treatment for alleviation of postoperative vomiting in children. The survey was embedded in a randomised controlled trial.<p> <p><i>Results</i>: Parental expectancy to acupuncture treatment changed over time. The changes were predicted by several variables such as children’s gender, parents’ age and education, previous experiences, and assignment to treatment group. The strongest predictor was parental anxiety to their child undergoing surgery. Further, the change of parental expectancy was correlated with postoperative vomiting.<p> <p><i>Conclusions</i>: Anxious parents are prone to change their expectancy in a positive direction during the treatment period, which in turn may improve treatment outcome. Acupuncture therapists in clinical practice should pay a special attention to the potential that lies here, and acknowledge parental anxiety as a possible facilitator, and not a barrier, to elicit placebo by proxy effects. Further research to expand the findings of the present study into other treatments is in order. Future research should also provide more knowledge about how parental expectancy changes over time, and how different factors predict and produce change of parental expectancy.<p>en_US
dc.descriptionSource at <a href=https://doi.org/10.1186/s12906-018-2248-z>https://doi.org/10.1186/s12906-018-2248-z. </a> © The Author(s). 2018en_US
dc.identifier.citationLiodden, I.E., Pripp, A.H. & Norheim, A.J. (2018). Placebo by proxy expectations toward acupuncture change over time: A survey comparing parental expectations to acupuncture pre- and postoperatively. <i>BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine</i>,18:183. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12906-018-2248-zen_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1597602
dc.identifier.doi10.1186/s12906-018-2248-z
dc.identifier.issn1472-6882
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/14977
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherBMCen_US
dc.relation.journalBMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.subjectExpectationsen_US
dc.subjectPlacebo by proxyen_US
dc.subjectPre- and postoperativelyen_US
dc.subjectAcupunctureen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Health sciences: 800::Community medicine, Social medicine: 801en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Helsefag: 800::Samfunnsmedisin, sosialmedisin: 801en_US
dc.titlePlacebo by proxy expectations toward acupuncture change over time: A survey comparing parental expectations to acupuncture pre- and postoperativelyen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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