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do you have a copy for me please.

Well, for example, from that anomalies article: “PW…receives personal consultancy fees from Swiss Re reinsurance company”

“a substantial number of patients with severe fatigue do not have deviant physical activity levels“ yes obviously, if you are very tired, your level of activity is the same as when you’re not tired.

Well done!

strange form of reasoning

That was a quote from the recover study, or I should say from the reply from the authors from that study, so they say that applies to the people with long Covid in their study. and I fully agree with you it doesn’t make sense, it sounds more like a copout.

“Research showed that a substantial number of patients with severe fatigue do not have deviant physical activity levels.(7) This was also found in our sample, i.e. 81% of participants had a fluctuating active activity pattern, and only 19% had a low active activity pattern.” In other words...

Many have just put their name there to do a favour to their friends because if CBT fails for ME, then they are worried that it will also fail for FND and then their whole world of make belief will come tumbling down.

No Dutch Crawley, ie Elise M van de Putte, either

Ty! "Fatigue is generally associated with low physical activity in patients with various chronic medical conditions. However, such an association has not been reported among patients with rheumatoid arthritis" (RA) Conclusion: "Among patients with RA, a higher level of daily physical activity...

“how can it be that some of these people have treated people with ME, but understand so little about the condition?” Because it’s all about money, power and their own careers and the health of millions of patients is totally irrelevant.

Never forget the first rule of cognitive behavioural therapy for post-infectious diseases i.e. their treatment is always affective, no matter the outcome of their study. And then the rationale is changed accordingly.

Always interesting to see that that Dutch journal never asks any critical questions when it comes to those sort of studies.

Yes please

didn’t you know that in the world of delusional psychology, you can increase your fitness without increasing your activity?

Guess who concluded that there is an inverse relationship between fatigue and physical functioning? Yes, you guessed it right, amongst others, professor Hans Knoop…

Thank you for your response to that bad article. If your response is still not open access, then it might be worth considering to contact the journal and stress to them that the original article is open access and as a consequence all responses to that article should be open access without you...

Have a look at how ZonMW spells her last name, that pretty much sums up that study…

Ty; Kuut: “Scores on the fatigue severity subscale of the Checklist Individual Strength (CIS), range 8 to 56, with higher scores indicating more severe fatigue; a score of ≥ 35 indicates severe fatigue“ Your PNG: “Subsequently the four subscales are calculated by summing the respective items...

Thank you, but there’s no need to apologise. The people who should apologise are the authors who should have used standard deviation and not standard error. By using the latter, they give the impression that they do not want people to see the spread of their participants.