There was a recently published study on motivational interviews used by social workers to help reduce sick leave that found no benefit compared...
Objective This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of motivational interviewing (MI) – a counselling approach offered by caseworkers at the...
A Swedish news channel have asked for people to tell their stories of how the covid pandemic has affected them. Lots of long-covid stories (in...
Anecdotally there are lots of people coughing at work. So even though NIPH actually advises to "stay at home if (symptomatic) sick" the attitude...
Not exactly long covid perhaps, but one of the prominent "ME is psychological" Norwegian Institute of Public Health employees are in the media...
I feel it's silly for them to say a suggestion will not be enough for the majority of patients to reach the activity thresholds. The majority of...
Sorry but :rofl: Six months and one year is pretty bad for most people to be suffering after an initial mild infection.
At least the study at NTNU. And a number of individuals from NIPH have made general comments on it being "interesting", "provides hope" and similar.
I have hope that some of the large cohort studies with biobanks can be used for something at some point. But it would help to know what to look...
Forskning.no wrote about the study today, and I am always so happy when there is an article about ME without any reference to the "two sides" etc. :)
As long as we take into account that when you have a few thousand participants in your study, individual datapoints just look like a giant blob...
Yes! My heartrate varies throughout my cycle, and so does the energy burned on my fitbit in response to whatever it is I'm doing (though this is...
I don't think it is that easy that numbers "speak for us", and even with a lot of work to make numbers seen healthcare can be slow to act. Take...
They don't, unfortunately.
A lot of people have diets high in starches together with vitamin D and iron deficiencies. That's not saying a lot.
As they write it may reflect inflammation. Ferritin is an acute phase reactant, ie. it increases in response to infection.
They are at least willfully avoiding to answer the critique they are getting, and using their authority as researchers to get away with not...
But we also saw people who became more active, had more time to make "healthy homemade meals" and increased their sleep, all factors that could...
What makes it so hard is that diabetes has been on the rise for a long while already, and even pre-covid it was set to double by 2050. Edit: Not...
An example of this would be Wyller's recent work, and how the Lightning Process study at NTNU is presented. "We're using the Canada Criteria, see...
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