Animal-assisted Placebo-induced Analgesia

Launched by UNIVERSITY OF BASEL · Mar 29, 2019

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Upon arrival, all participants will be asked to read the study information again and sign to confirm their informed consent. They will also be asked to complete the sociodemographic data (SDD) questionnaire.

During the experiment there will be three points of questionnaire-assessment. The following questionnaires will be used: expectancy will be assessed with the Expectancy of Relief Scale. Expectancy of Relief Scale is adapted to the scaling of the primary outcome. Expectancy has been measured in previous studies. It should detect if participants expectancy changes after the intervention ...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Age ≥ 18 years
• • Right-handedness
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Being scared of dogs or dog hair allergy by self-report
• • Any acute or chronic disease (chronic pain, hypertension, heart disease, renal disease, liver disease, diabetes) as well as skin pathologies, neuropathies or nerve entrapment symptoms, sensory abnormalities affecting the tactile or thermal modality
• • Current medications (psychoactive medication, narcotics, intake of analgesics) or being currently in psychological or psychiatric treatment
• • Insufficient German language skills to understand the instructions
• • Previous participation in studies using pain assessment with Peltier Devices
• • Current or regular drug consumption (THC, cocaine, heroin, etc.)
• • pregnancy
• • nursing women