Anticipating a side effect makes it more likely you'll experience it – this could contribute to vaccine hesitancy
- Written by: Hamish John Wilson, Associate Professor in General Practice, University of Otago
noceboThe COVID pandemic has highlighted several interesting features of modern medical practice – most recently the “nocebo” response, which may account for a significant number of side effects people experience following vaccination.
Nocebo responses (from Latin noci: to harm) are the opposite of the better known placebo. While...
