NCT03977246

Effect of Open-placebo Intervention on Cycling Performance

The Effect of an Open-placebo Intervention on Cycling Time-trial Performance

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 28 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Sao Paulo · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 45 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study evaluates the effect of an open-label placebo intervention on cycling time-trial performance.

Detailed description

This study investigated the effect of open-placebo on cycling time-trial (TT) performance. Twenty-eight trained female cyclists completed a 1-km cycling TT following a control session or an open-placebo intervention. The intervention consisted of an individual presentation, provided by a medic, in which the concept of open-placebo was explained to the participant, before she ingested two red and white capsules containing flour; 15 min later, they performed the TT. In the control session, the participant sat quietly for 20 min.

Conditions

• Exercise Performance

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Open-placebo	Application of the open-placebo intervention
BEHAVIORAL	Control	Application of the control session

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-05-01
• Primary completion: 2018-08-30
• Completion: 2018-09-30
• First posted: 2019-06-06
• Last updated: 2019-06-07

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Brazil