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Nursing and Medical Students’ General Beliefs on Placebo Interventions
| Variable | Profession | Total N (%) |
χ2 | P | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nursing | Medical | |||||
| Placebo effectiveness | Usually effective | 24 (25.5) | 14 (15.2) | 38 (20.4) | 19.73 | 0.000 |
| Sometimes effective | 51 (54.3) | 75 (81.5) | 126 (67.7) | |||
| Never effective | 14 (14.9) | 1 (1.1) | 15 (8.1) | |||
| I do not know | 5 (5.3) | 2 (2.2) | 7 (3.8) | |||
| Physical complaints get better by believing in effectiveness of therapy | Yes | 67 (72.0) | 78 (84.8) | 145 (78.4) | 4.43 | 0.035 |
| No | 26 (28.0) | 14 (15.2) | 40 (21.6) | |||
