Well yes, and even then 'conceivably' is doing a lot of heavy lifting. As @rvallee would say, the giant spaghetti monster in the sky is...
Of the 354, 176 were assigned to usual care and 178 to the intervention 135 assigned to usual care made it to 52 weeks; 144 in the intervention...
7837 people identified from GP records 891 excluded or not sent a participation pack - mostly due to the GP saying they aren't suitable e.g....
It looks as though harms were reported by participants, but I assume that if the participants stopped participating and weren't contactable, then...
Randomisation; masking A big deal is made of randomised allocation of people to the treatments. But that is rather insignificant when the...
Diagnosis See the post upthread for the list of questions in the PHQ-15. I note that women have to answer an additional question about periods,...
Introduction What nonsense - that a third of referrals from GPs to specialists is due to functional disorders and physical symptoms...
I'm noting the different responses from forum members to this questionnaire, which is a PROM, and the MEA-funded work of Sarah Tyson's team. The...
I'm pretty sure though that the orthostatic intolerance in my children and I started at the same time as all the other symptoms. And so that was...
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Welcome to the forum, it's great to have you here. That's exciting news and good that the user organisations have a seat at the table. Yes....
I'm so sorry about your Dad's illnesses. They do seem like they might be a clue as to what happened to you. ITP - is that immune thrombocytopenia?
Thanks @Wyva, so we have a whole batch of papers on poorly conceived studies to look forward to. When no cognitive dysfunction shows up, I often...
Click on the tag at the top left of the thread - 'Mastroianni' - for more content by Adam Mastroianni e.g. The Rise and Fall of Peer Review,...
What then do they think are the problems? Society's belief that objectively measurable disorders are more real and worthy than other disorders....
And that's the end of that possible source of stigma as far as the authors are concerned - when actually power differences and the magnification...
If only they put the same effort applied to acronyms to examining the evidence for the views they hold. Someone has been paying multiple PhD...
1. Create the stigma 2. Categorise the stigma There's definitely a sense of hand-wringing from a number of these papers on FND stigma. "Here we...
Hopefully they will consider the obvious issue with this, that activity correlates with the weather. A sunny day, especially in winter, is likely...
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