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Placebo Effect: later-stage trial registry

1 of 4 indexed Placebo Effect trials are currently recruiting, with more weight in Phase 3-4.

Corpus placement: #4,115 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count.

4 US clinical trials · 1 currently recruiting · #4,115 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count

Placebo Effect: 4 US clinical trials tracked, 1 recruiting.

Placebo Effect is the subject of 4 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 1 of them currently open to new participants. 1 are in Phase 3-4 (later-stage) and 0 in Phase 1-2 (earlier-stage). The most active sponsor is Trustees of Dartmouth College, running 1 of these trials.

Enrollment posture brief

Registry condition placebo-effect

OPEN 1 | RECR 25% | LATE 1 | EARLY 0 | RANK #4115 | SPON 1

Nearest open-share peer: Abdominal Cancer (25% recruiting · 8 trials)

Ablation80%ACL Reconstruction80%Abuse, Drug60%Acceptability60%Placebo Effect (this)25%
Open-enrollment share among volume-matched conditions near Placebo Effect

Placebo Effect lists 1 open slots (25% of 4 indexed trials). Peers are matched on registered volume, not therapeutic-area browse lists. How peer matching works →

Key findings

What ClinicalTrials.gov does not surface for Placebo Effect on its own pages , computed from the registry mirror as of 2026-08-08. Each line carries its own denominator so it can be quoted as it stands.

  1. Placebo Effect is recruiting below its size-band peers.

    1 of 4 indexed trials (25%) are open to enrollment, against a 46.5% average across 27,806 conditions with fewer than 20 trials. The peer set uses the same ClinicalTrials.gov-derived counts as this page.

Phase 41

Phase Distribution

PhaseTrial count
Phase 4 1

Named interventions

Most-linked intervention names on Placebo Effect records (sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov). Counts are trial links, not unique products.

Placebo - small sucrose pill Other
1 trials
Caffeine Anhydrous with large sucrose pill Drug
1 trials
Placebo - large sucrose pill Other
1 trials
Caffeine Anhydrous with small sucrose pill Drug
1 trials
peppermint oil Dietary supplement
1 trials
Virtual Statin Management (VSM) Other
1 trials
Session E: On-Placebo + Sham tTIS Behavioral
1 trials
Session D: Negative Placebo + Sham tTIS Behavioral
1 trials

US sites by state

Facility locations filed on Placebo Effect trials. A trial with sites in several states counts in each.

Colorado 2 trials
New Hampshire 1 trials
Massachusetts 1 trials

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, National Library of Medicine. Data is informational only.

What to do with this Placebo Effect page

4 registered trials, 1 currently recruiting, is a starting point for a conversation, not a diagnosis or a recommendation.

Trial and recruiting counts reflect ClinicalTrials.gov registry status as of the data vintage above; individual trial eligibility and enrollment status can change.

Every figure on PlainTrial is rendered directly from the ClinicalTrials.gov registry, no number is typed in by an editor. This Placebo Effect condition card totals 4 registered trials; most-linked intervention Placebo - small sucrose pill; top US site state Colorado. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.