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alktipping liked Joan Crawford's post in the thread Lancet - Medically unexplained symptoms explained.
I think you are correct in that it risks normalising making explanations up and rubber stamping this as OK. A much less energetic...
Jun 14, 2024 at 10:30 PM -
alktipping liked Nightsong's post in the thread Lancet - Medically unexplained symptoms explained.
Here's a PDF for the Toussaint et al paper: link - the SEM was 2.3 for the PHQ-15m. The adjusted between-group difference was -1.82 (95%...
Jun 14, 2024 at 10:30 PM -
oldtimer liked Dolphin's post in the thread News from Australia.
Press release: The Australian Government is investing nearly $14.5 million into research to improve our understanding of the impacts of...
Jun 14, 2024 at 10:29 PM -
alktipping liked ME/CFS Skeptic's post in the thread Lancet - Medically unexplained symptoms explained.
It's also a strange thing to study: whether making up an explanation for symptoms makes the patient feel less ill. I assume that the...
Jun 14, 2024 at 10:29 PM -
alktipping liked NelliePledge's post in the thread Lancet - Medically unexplained symptoms explained.
As well as FND all psychosomatic efforts are post NICE 21 obviously going into promotion of MUS to reclaim the ground lost.
Jun 14, 2024 at 10:29 PM -
alktipping liked Joan Crawford's post in the thread Lancet - Medically unexplained symptoms explained.
"GPs with an extended role spent substantial time actively listening to the participant describe their illness and proposing and...
Jun 14, 2024 at 10:28 PM -
alktipping liked Joan Crawford's post in the thread Lancet - Medically unexplained symptoms explained.
"Although we excluded people with organic disease in the design of this trial....." Now there's a claim. Boom. (Apologies it's a...
Jun 14, 2024 at 10:28 PM -
alktipping liked Joan Crawford's post in the thread Lancet - Medically unexplained symptoms explained.
I've scanned the paper and they mention fatigue, ibs and fibromyalgia. Cannot see ME/CFS specifically though it might be in there.
Jun 14, 2024 at 10:28 PM -
alktipping liked Joan Crawford's post in the thread Lancet - Medically unexplained symptoms explained.
This is I think mentioned in the paper "The PHQ-15 has been reported as having an MCID of 2ยท3 points" Ref 23 23.Toussaint A Kroenke K...
Jun 14, 2024 at 10:27 PM -
alktipping liked dave30th's post in the thread Lancet - Medically unexplained symptoms explained.
What specifically happened in 2015? Interestingly, the same year of the IOM report on ME/CFS.
Jun 14, 2024 at 10:27 PM -
alktipping liked dave30th's post in the thread Lancet - Medically unexplained symptoms explained.
Is there an established minimal clinically significant difference for the PHQ-15?
Jun 14, 2024 at 10:27 PM -
alktipping liked Joan Crawford's post in the thread Lancet - Medically unexplained symptoms explained.
Gobsmacking overconfidence. They do not demonstrate in any objective manner that they made a real world difference to anyone. Even...
Jun 14, 2024 at 10:27 PM -
alktipping liked ME/CFS Skeptic's post in the thread Lancet - Medically unexplained symptoms explained.
Apparently, the symptoms are no longer medically unexplained. That seems to be the main message that they want to spread. In the...
Jun 14, 2024 at 10:26 PM -
alktipping liked ME/CFS Skeptic's post in the thread Lancet - Medically unexplained symptoms explained.
This is the primary outcome, the PHQ-15 [ATTACH]
Jun 14, 2024 at 10:26 PM
