“Let’s see what happens:”—Women’s experiences of open-label placebo treatment for menopausal hot flushes in a randomized controlled trial

• Yiqi Pan ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: y.pan@uke.de

  Affiliation Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5184-2860

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• Miriam L. Frank,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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• Ted J. Kaptchuk,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Program in Placebo Studies and the Therapeutic Encounter (PiPS), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Yvonne Nestoriuc

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Clinical Psychology, Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Institute for Systems Neuroscience, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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