Influential factors and mechanism of non-specific effect in acupuncture / 中国针灸
Chinese Acupuncture & Moxibustion
; (12): 1319-1323, 2016.
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ABSTRACT
Even though a large amount of researches showing the clinical effectiveness of acupuncture, there are the researches indicating the absent difference between acupuncture and sham-acupuncture (placebo), which provides the doubts on the specificity of acupuncture. It may be considered that acupuncture intervention is complica-ted and may produce unique non-specific effect, which results in the failure to evaluate effectively the acupuncture efficacy. The influential factors of the non-specific effect of acupuncture include the interaction between physician and patient, expectancy, physician authority, acupuncture treatment experiences, etc. It may be also relevant with the anticipated biological effect, Hawthorne effect, Pavlovian conditioned reflex, etc.
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Clinical_trials
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Zh
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Chinese Acupuncture & Moxibustion
Year:
2016
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Article