Table 6.

Pain intensity with treatments associated with patient guesses.

Treatment	Patient guesses (median, mean ± SD pain intensity on 100 mm VAS)
	Guessed as penetrating treatment	Guessed as skin-touch treatment	Guessed as no-touch treatment	Total
Penetrating treatments	15.7, 21.9 ± 22.8	13.2, 17.5 ± 16.5	-	14.5, 20.4 ± 20.8
Skin-touch placebo treatments	4.9, 8.7 ± 12.4	4.3, 6.4 ± 11.7	1.6	4.3, 7.3 ± 11.8
No-touch placebo treatments	2.0, 2.9 ± 2.6	1.4, 2.7 ± 4.0	0.0, 0.8 ± 1.9	0.0, 1.5 ± 2.7
Total	6.8, 15.4 ± 19.7	4.3, 8.9 ± 13.4	0.0, 0.8 ± 1.9	3.3, 9.7 ± 15.9