Psychological Context Effects

Swansea University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Negative Communication; Control Condition; Positive Communication (Primary)

Treatments: Behavioral: communication type

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03855254

SwanseaU1

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study explores how contextual effects in the fore of positive and negative communication can affect the effect of an osteopathic technique on pain pressure thresholds.

Enrollment: 35 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Health volunteers with no forms of existing pain.

Exclusion criteria

• Participants with existing pain.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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35 participants in 3 patient groups

Positive communication

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: communication type

Control (neutral communication)

No Intervention group

Negative communication

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: communication type