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Personalised and Standardised Wafer-Based Open-Label Placebos Reduce Perceived Stress: A Three-Arm Randomised Controlled Trial

2025-09-15

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<p>Background: Open-label placebos (OLPs) are placebos administered transparently, without deception, that can nonetheless yield beneficial effects. We tested a novel OLP delivery format—printed edible wafers, with or without individualised coaching-based personalisation, in highly stressed university students. <h4>Methods:</h4> N = 137 highly stressed university students were randomly assigned for three weeks to...

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Literature Corpus work: 34f07f8b-a458-5d1f-a3ae-b81f667b946a
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/rzh28_v1

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