Comments from another reviewer, which seem reasonable enough. https://bmjpaedsopen.bmj.com/content/bmjpo/2/1/e000299.reviewer-comments.pdf
https://bmjpaedsopen.bmj.com/content/bmjpo/2/1/e000299.reviewer-comments.pdf PEER REVIEW HISTORY [..] VERSION 1 - REVIEW REVIEWER Reviewer...
Qualitative research, where you interview people and then transcribe interviews, generally involves small sample sizes. Many/most I’ve read seem...
The National CFIDS Foundation tends to look for researchers to do studies based on the theories of their scientific director.
Note that I don't recall anything in the current study about the participants saying they were recovered. Improved is not recovered. This makes...
[ATTACH] This model doesn't fit me anyway. I wasn't diagnosed till 5.5 years into the illness. If I recall correctly, I took two days off school...
Quite a number of journals publish the peer reviews. I have often found them interesting including to learn more about researchers’ views. I...
Anything is possible. I think it's much more likely the patients were not fully recovered and that this is unfounded speculation. Here's a...
So any credit for improvements goes to the therapy but any increase in fatigue is due to something else.
For what it is worth. It would have been interesting to have such information for all six individuals. It would have been interesting for the...
The individual scores. Note these are for questionnaires rather than objective measures. The fatigue scale is 0-33. The two scores of 29 that were...
A young person once told me they lied that they were better to get away from a therapist. Jane Colby said she had heard of similar things in the...
That's a huge number of sessions. The sessions were 1-2 hours long. And they were done in people's homes. This would add up to quite an expensive...
I have never heard of a six-item version. Anyway, it means that it is hard to compare the results with other studies or indeed population norms.
This would be consistently bad advice in my view. It's a nightmare in my view that all these professionals would be given bad information. One...
Their form of CBT is about breaking the link between how much you do and your symptoms. So in this case, their advice would likely be to keep...
I’m sure some people would have liked them to say more. But a letter to a newspaper needs to get published before it is seen as good in my mind....
Long for severely affected people. Somebody like Mary Burgess or Trudie Chalder is not going to change their views so I find this language of...
Sounds like they were setting it up so that if it didn't appear to work or there were problems, it was the patients' and/or parents' fault for not...
There is no CONSORT diagram. I have to wonder whether there may have been other patients who had therapy at home but who are not included in the...
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