PR DEPOK – For those who just received vaccine Covid-19, will generally feel side effects such as headache, fever, fatigue and muscle aches.
Most people think that side effects it is the reaction of vaccine Covid-19 that enters the body.
But a new study published in the journal JAMA Network Open on January 18, 2022, reveals that nearly two-thirds of the symptoms vaccine Covid-19 caused by effect nocebo.
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What is effect nocebo? Nocebo is side effects that is felt from a treatment due to the influence of negative thoughts or suggestions from oneself.
“Non-specific symptoms such as headaches and fatigue – which we showed were very sensitive to nocebo – listed among the most common adverse reactions after vaccination Covid-19 in many information leaflets,” said study senior author Ted J. Kaptchuk, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Further in a statement, J. Kaptchuk said that information about side effects Covid-19 can make a person feel very alert and worried about the symptoms the body feels after vaccination.
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“Evidence suggests that this kind of information can cause people to misinterpret common everyday background sensations arising from vaccine or cause anxiety and worry that makes people very aware of how the body feels about side effects, ”Added Kaptchuk.
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