Altruism, personal benefit, and anxieties: a phenomenological study of healthy volunteers' experiences in a placebo‐controlled trial of duloxetine

ConclusionsSmall changes to advertising/consent materials to reflect volunteers' motivations could improve recruitment rates to similar trials; “active” placebos might be particularly useful for maintaining blinding in healthy volunteer trials; and sensitive procedures are needed for un‐blinding participants to treatment allocation. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Source: Human Psychopharmacology: Clinical and Experimental - July 4, 2016 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Isaac N. Kwakye, Matthew Garner, David S. Baldwin, Susan Bamford, Verity Pinkney, Felicity L. Bishop Tags: Research Article Source Type: research