Placebo Effects Vary According to

question 35

Multiple Choice

Placebo effects vary according to

• A) how a provider interacts with the patient.
• B) how much a provider believes in the power of the placebo.
• C) a provider's warmth, confidence, and empathy.
• D) how a provider interacts with the patient, the provider's belief in the power of the placebo, and the provider's warmth, confidence, and empathy.
• E) gender of the patient.

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Definitions:

Third Variable

An unmeasured variable that may influence or confound the relationship between the two variables of interest in a study.

Spearman Rank

An assessment of rank correlation that doesn't rely on parametric assumptions, used to evaluate how effectively a monotonic function can represent the association between two variables.

Ordinal-Level

Refers to a level of measurement where data can be ordered or ranked, but the distances between ranks are not necessarily equal.

Point Biserial

A correlation coefficient used to measure the relationship between a binary variable and a continuous variable.