The table of contents of the Journal of Health Psychology's 2017 Special Issue on the PACE trial is linked in the S4ME Science Library. I thought...
Tuller D. Once again, the PACE authors respond to concerns with empty answers. Journal of Health Psychology. 2017;22(9):1118-1122....
I stumbled across this study on fatigue in Lupus elsewhere. I think it's interesting that they used actimetry. That's rarely done in validation...
Apologies, not able to read through the thread, but stumbled across this study on fatigue in Lupus. Not sure if it aimed to be a validation...
Not sure whether diaries that the patient fills in could qualify as an actual objective measure? I agree though that specific activity diaries...
After re-reading your posts, @dave30th and @Michiel Tack , I think you worded all relevant points as clearly as possible. Also the table with...
Yes, those who have power over them but also researchers and health care professionals new to the field of ME and 'MUS' research in general. Even...
Apologies for being repetitive with the argument about the need for objective outcomes in unblinded trials. Also, some of the points I'd like to...
I think Brurberg's other references don't support the idea that subjective outcomes are sufficient in open label trials either? Mahieu MA, Ahn...
Mahieu MA, Ahn GE, Chmiel JS, Dunlop DD, Helenowski IB, Semanik P, Song J, Yount S, Chang RW, Ramsey-Goldman R. Fatigue, patient reported...
My thoughts as a lay person: 1) The relevance of symptoms for making a diagnosis is different from the relevance of symptoms for measuring a...
As the title indicates. Proponents of therapist delivered treatments like psychotherapy or exercise repeatedly rejected the argument that relying...
I thought it could be worthwhile to have a closer look at a particular claim of some defenders of research on the Lightning Process and similarly...
Anker, S D, Agewall, S, Borggrefe M et al, 2014, The importance of patient-reported outcomes: a call for their comprehensive integration in...
So, only one example for this double cherry-picking for now. The review authors state: "Mediation analysis of CBT for CFS has revealed that...
One last addition to the first point -- how the review authors use references to justify their own past and future research. It appears to be a...
3.) More a question: That’s how the review authors deal with the impossibility to blind patients and treatment providers to the intervention:...
2.) The review authors acknowledge that the evidence from the current state of research is too uncertain to conclude anything about the...
That's what I thought, too. Added to my previous post: The review authors weren't involved in any of the studies considered for the actual...
I thought this was an interesting study 'nevertheless'. Carson et al (2015): "The total symptom count was greater for patients with symptoms...
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