PSYD33H3 Lecture Notes - Malingering
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Talk about guidelines to run a placebo trial under what conditions placebos are allowed. *difficult to determine drug efficacy on its own. When placebo response is high, effective drug may not be best proven . Placebos can distinguish side affects of a medication from side effects from disorder (cadesky-p58) *reduce drugging in children -- beneficial for use of children (cadesky-pg58) *autonomy patient knows what they re getting into [[already mention in against]] Smaller sample sizes need for placebo, cost effective (elliot pg3) Reduces use of ineffective drugs on patients (la vaque) Allows for patients who wouldn t otherwise have access to drug [[already mentioned]] *placebo used best in 3-arm treatment (cadesky pg59) 3 arm design treatment vs standard shows its effective when new drug is compared to standard treatment, but when compared to placebo it wasn t effective (could be regression to the mean) la vaque p10.
