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Interesting if true.

I've never heard that complaint before about the SF-36 physical function subscale. I don't remember such a comment from the Cochrane review, but it was a long document and my memory is not so good.

I presume this might be happening in other clinics in England i.e. that the Minimum Data Set is not being used any more.

I'm no expert on how sex might be discussed. But at the same time a lack of sex/intimacy may lead to relationship breakdown. Sometimes there are workarounds that might help couples if they were aware of them, though still the frequency will be likely a lot less. Also, some people may not feel...

The paper does highlight how the illness affects quality of life in many ways, so I suppose it is useful that way though not new to most of us here.

Seems reasonable, though I suppose it's going to be hard to find a questionnaire that asks everything and at the same time is not very long.

Sounds too much like Quality of Life scores could be changed by changing attitudes, goals, et cetera.

The sentence started well but I question it has been proven the cognitive difficulties are related to sleep disorder.

Interesting. It can be frustrating with most questionnaires where you can't add comment.

I've started a thread on this paper: https://www.s4me.info/threads/expecting-a-good-quality-of-life-in-health-assessing-people-with-diverse-diseases-and-conditions-using-the-whoqol-bref-skevington-mccrate-2012.5721/

One of the conditions looked at was CFS. This doesn't seem to have been cited much in the CFS literature Free full text: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1369-7625.2010.00650.x Health Expect. 2012 Mar; 15(1): 49–62. Published online 2011 Jan 31. doi...

NICE criteria

WHOQOL Brief was used in this study. Again this rarely gets cited.

Carmine Pariente

I don't recall this paper being cited or referred to much so I have started a thread on it. https://www.s4me.info/threads/quality-of-life-of-patients-with-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-van-heck-de-vries-2002.5719/

2002 study that doesn't seem to have been cited very many times, most likely because of the journal it was published in, which was not PubMed-listed. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J092v10n01_03 Journal Journal of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Volume 10, 2002 - Issue 1 Original...