No problem, you are welcome. Obviously they won't be in the office today, as it is the bank holiday, so they will get back to you as soon as they can at some point this week. I'm also fairly certain that you wouldn't have been able to sign up again, unless you gave different personal...
Tia, hopefully I'm in time to ask you not to sign up again, and to get in touch with out team at info@decodeme.org.uk. I think we would prefer to resolve situations like this than have people sign up multiple times. Given that it sounds like you had completed it, it would be a shame to ask you...
Highlights
• The COVID group of the follow-up survey reported increased subjective neurocognitive complaints.
• These complaints were not consistent with objective test performance.
• The COVID group showed a greater depressive symptom burden compared with the non-COVID group.
• Complaints need...
I think it will be dependent on what settings you had enabled (or disabled) in Firefox. We would expect the questionnaire to work on any major browser out there due to the platform it is built on but some people are finding that some security settings and security programs are disabling it for...
News in Brief posts for w/c 12th Sept.
https://www.facebook.com/sci4me/posts/pfbid0RYnjiJoP4rbtjfnjHLXdBADXAG4u7w2CvPD9dqcV3fjchyYHGCXhEE8B5Gb9fGaul
and thread of research published
https://www.facebook.com/sci4me/posts/pfbid0NPCzerjLKNu2TuyabK87SofKkUBWCTEuGvLXnDJzyzKMMfN2udMGcXQKJ6or3Zqpl
And you are, of course, entitled to your opinion. However, I would point out that the decision to commision the fulfillment company, which stored our spit kits, sending them out when asked in cardboard packaging that they supply, was taken equally by the members of the DecodeME management team...
A continual increase in cases of Long Covid constitutes a medical and socioeconomic challenge to health systems around the globe. While the true extent of this problem cannot yet be fully evaluated, recent data suggests that up to 20% of people with confirmed with SARS-CoV-2 suffer from...
Abstract
This study aimed to map systemic alterations predisposing to oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) onset. This review was conducted according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses. Five databases were used to access (1) reports of OSCC co-occurring in...
Abstract
Severe cases of COVID-19 are characterized by an inflammatory burst, which is accompanied by multiorgan failure. The elderly population has higher risk for severe or fatal outcome for COVID-19. Inflammatory mediators facilitate the immune system to combat viral infection by producing...
I honestly don't know. I know part of our outreach plan was to talk to BACME to see if they will spread the word but I don't know where we got with that. I have a vague memory of Sonya doing a presentation about DecodeME at, perhaps, their AGM.
Update: Week One of DecodeME’s Launch
My summary of the key points:
Over 10,000 people signed up to take part in our first week with over 7,000 already completing the questionnaire.
There has been a delay in notifying all who’ve completed their questionnaire about whether we’re also going to...
Abstract
Purpose
The aim of the study was to compare the outcomes of patients with post-COVID-19 condition undergoing supervised therapeutic exercise intervention or following the self-management WHO (World Health Organization) rehabilitation leaflet.
Methods
A randomized controlled trial that...
"Also, the label given to symptoms can influence perceived symptom severity and participants’ expected well-being (Copp et al., 2017; Petrie et al., 2018). Furthermore, labeling a new syndrome (such as long COVID) could increase illness identity (the degree to which a chronic illness becomes...
Merged thread - paper now published
Abstract
Objective: We examined whether varying information about long COVID would affect expectations about the illness.
Method: In October 2021, we conducted a 2 (Illness Description: long COVID vs. ongoing COVID-19 recovery) × 2 (Symptom Uncertainty...
Recruitment of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)
Patients with CFS diagnosed in the psychology and psychiatric outpatient departments of the Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University and Guizhou Provincial People’s Hospital from January 2010 to January 2019 were recruited...
Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the specific mechanisms underlying the human health-promoting effects of the forest environment at Huangguoshu Falls, Guizhou, China.
Methods: Ninety-five participants were recruited and an eye tracker was used to record fixation and sweep...
"The news article on medical gaslighting raises the important point that doctors should always accept patient concerns about symptoms and never dismiss them as imaginary.1 But …"
Paywalled, https://www.bmj.com/content/378/bmj.o2236
This seems to be a published rapid response to a BMJ News...
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