USA RESEARCH NAUSEA REDUCTION – RISK COUNSELLING
June 1st, 2006
BY MONICA DOBIE
NURSES can actually reduce symptoms in patients that undergo medical procedures by telling them how bad they will feel, according to a study published in the USA's Psychosomatic Medicine Magazine. Wake Forest University School of Medicine, North Carolina, researchers wanted to determine how expectations affect symptoms of nausea and motion sickness. They found that participants told to expect considerable nausea in an uncomfortable experiment fared better than those who did not.
Participants were given ineffective pills, before being sat on a ...
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