We conducted a systematic review that aimed to document and describe how (1) expectation of benefit from treatment (response expectancies) were measured and reported in acupuncture trials, and (2) examine any effect on outcomes.
Some of the pain relief acupuncture provides may actually be a placebo effect, in which the expectation of benefit brings about the desired result.
Although asthma symptoms often improve with placebo, it is not known whether the response to placebo or active treatment can be augmented by increasing expectation of benefit.
The control will most often be placebo, but for therapeutic procedures and for behavioral treatment trials, respectively, a sham procedure and control intervention with similar expectation of benefit, but lacking the treatment principle, are recommended.
Initial interviews for a randomized trial were used to describe surrogates' perceptions of feeding options, and to determine whether a decision aid on feeding options in advanced dementia would improve knowledge, reduce expectation of benefit from tube feeding, and reduce conflict over treatment choices for persons with advanced dementia.
Far too many people are taking niacin with the expectation of benefit – and without evidence to support that belief.
Once you are doing things for the good of others, without expectation of benefit, then others can be inspired to do the same.
At pre-treatment, both treatment groups also rated the likely benefits of the Worry program as similar, although participants in the CA group rated the expectation of benefit as marginally greater than the TA group (F1, 91 = 3.77, p<0.06).
Expectation of benefit is also generated during consultations.
