This reference provides a good overview of what ACT is: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3635495/ Hayes seems convinced that all our...
Of ffs, there's no control group! btw I have some experience of ACT (ETA: for depression/anxiety not ME or CFS). It seems to be based on the...
Err... They may have "understood" the reason for blinding, but other aspects of study design... So there is no way they can make this statement...
I've had it with vicious circles!
And I've just found this table in Sharpe et al. Chronic fatigue syndrome. A practical guide to assessment and management. Gen Hosp Psychiatry...
I don't know whether this has been mentioned before, but the minimal testing theme runs all the way through Fukuda (Ann Intern Med....
@Nasim Marie Jafry - I think this is the paper that @JaimeS mentioned: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15043967 I think I have a copy...
Arguably, that's precisely why there's a crisis. They are struggling to recruit enough professionals into their field, and their profession is...
To take this back to where it all started, "who said, 'don't bother testing patients,'" I think it comes down to this... There is an expectation...
He (reviewer 1) is saying that his copy has the correct values that SW put in his reply to Bland. But I would say that the precision of the...
I had a look - but AM doesn't appear in publication record until 1991. CS was publishing in 1989 at least, so may have encountered SW at...
and back to the "it's just depression" thing that @EzzieD mentioned, I found this in the very same reference: He's laying down the tracks...
Do you think this quote from Wessely Archive Ref1 is a direct reference to CS?:
They rarely do. They expect it to appear exactly as they wrote it.
Oh this just keeps getting stranger and stranger. Someone found the original manuscript: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1127330/...
Although maybe this isn't so true either. Their conclusion is that "fatigue is closely associated with psychological morbidity" - but that's only...
Found it: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2539651/ Oh oh oh oh oh - I see Martin Bland (Stats Prof) has found it too......
There are lots of problems with those "epidemiological" studies that he was involved with - I need to remind myself again. (I might be some time....
Which ref is this @JaimeS ?
I've just been delving into the archives (as it were) and came across just this thing. It couldn't be further from the truth, of course, so I'd...
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