Marco Testa

Biographic Data

ID7694764
NAMEMarco Testa
GIVEN NAMESMarco
FAMILY NAMETesta
SIGNATURETESTA M
AFFILIATIONSAzienda Sanitaria Locale N. 2 Savonese
ORCID0000-0001-8643-7200
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT6
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Exploring the Case-Based Learning Challenge (CBLC)

    Open AccessGiovanni Sellitto, Giovanni Galeoto et al.ARTICLEBMC Medical Education2026

    BACKGROUND: Teaching clinical reasoning and communication skills is a fundamental component of physiotherapy education. Integrating theoretical knowledge with practical application remains a core challenge, particularly in an evolving educational landscape increasingly shaped by digitalisation and inter-institutional collaboration. This study evaluates the feasibility and student-level educational impact of a national, digitally mediated, case-ba…

  • Personality traits and levels of anxiety and depression among martial artists

    Open AccessGaia Leuzzi, Benedetto Giardulli et al.ARTICLEBMC Psychology2024

    Fighting artists exhibit elevated levels of positive personality traits, such as openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, and agreeableness. Conversely, neuroticism tends to be lower among them. Moreover, anxiety and depression levels among fighting artists are lower than the Italian normative values. Fighting arts, particularly Karate and Judo, emerge as promising avenues for adults seeking innovative or complementary strategies to foster posi…

  • Giving an account of patients' experience

    Open AccessSimone Battista, Mattia Manoni et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2022

    INTRODUCTION: Despite the publication of clinical practice guidelines, the quality of the care process as experienced by patients with osteoarthritis (OA) appears suboptimal. Hence, this study investigates how patients with OA experience their disease and care process, highlighting potential elements that can enhance or spoil it, to optimise their quality of care. METHODS: A qualitative study based on semi-structured interviews. Patients with hip…

  • The Temporal Modulation of Nocebo Hyperalgesia in a Model of Sustained Pain

    Open AccessEleonora Maria Camerone, Simone Battista et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2022

    Our study demonstrated that temporal expectations shift nocebo response onset in a model of sustained pain

  • The Effect of Temporal Information on Placebo Analgesia and Nocebo Hyperalgesia

    Eleonora Maria Camerone, Alessandro Piedimonte et al.ARTICLEPsychosomatic Medicine2021

    OBJECTIVE: Expectations are known to be key determinants of placebo and nocebo phenomena. In previous studies, verbal suggestions to induce such expectations have mainly focused on the direction and magnitude of the effect, whereas little is known about the influence of temporal information. METHODS: Using an experimental placebo and nocebo design, we investigated whether information about the expected onset of a treatment effect modulates the st…

  • The Knowledge of Contextual Factors as Triggers of Placebo and Nocebo Effects in Patients With Musculoskeletal Pain

    Open AccessGiacomo Rossettini, Alvisa Palese et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Psychiatry2019

    Backgrounds: Contextual factors (CFs) have been recently proposed as triggers of placebo and nocebo effects in musculoskeletal pain. CFs encompass the features of the clinician (e.g. uniform), patient (e.g. expectations), patient-clinician relationship (e.g. verbal communication), treatment (e.g. overt therapy), and healthcare setting (e.g. design). To date, the researchers' understanding of Italian patients' knowledge about the role of CFs in mu…