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Study identifier: NCT05819476 Synced from ClinicalTrials.gov · July 29, 2026
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Boosting Open-Label Placebo Effects in Acute Induced Pain in Healthy Adults

Condition: Acute Pain  ·  Sponsor: University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

PhaseNA
Planned participants141
Who can joinAll sexes, 18 Years to 65 Years
Healthy volunteersYes

About this study

This study is to investigate the effect of open-label placebo (OLP) application on acute pain in an experimental model of acute pain (simulating wound pain: this installation will apply monophasic, rectangular electrical pulses of 0.5ms duration with alternating polarity at 2 Hz frequency. The current will be increased to target a pain rating of 6 of 10 on the NRS (0 = no pain, 10 = worst imaginable pain). Three further adjustments in current will be made every 5 minutes for the next 15 minutes to compensate for habituation. This final current will be kept constant until the end of the particular experiment). In Part 1 duration of OLP analgesia will be examined, and onset and size of the effect will be reevaluated. In Part 2 of this study outcomes between subjects receiving one OLP injection, subjects receiving one repetition of the injection on a fixed time point and subjects receiving one repetition of the injection on-demand will be evaluated

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Talk to the study team

Tobias Schneider, MD  ·  +41 61 328 65 43  ·  tobias.schneider@usb.ch

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Locations (1)

University Hospital of Basel (USB); Department of AnaesthesiologyBasel, SwitzerlandRecruiting

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