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A lot of carers are not caring for their spouse. Also if a couple has somebody they want to care for the man may continue working or work longer hours compared to the woman while the woman does the caring.

I liked it except for this bit: I remain to be convinced there is a gender difference in terms the percentages of male and female partners who leave or stay around. I remember looking at the membership list of a group I helped run. It had around 400 members. I didn't know the circumstances of...

Depends on severity of illness. Don't think should be done by anyone with severe ME (except perhaps in very exceptional circumstances). I was frustrated recently when somebody asked on an ME forum about a single exercise test and virtually everyone said: you'll be grand with some adding that...

To add a bit of clarification, I actually think Action for ME does some good work some of the time, but on things like professional education they don't like to criticise CBT and GET much and sometimes promote them.

Given Emily is hosting this and it is organised by Action for ME, I wouldn't have high hopes for this.

https://www.actionforme.org.uk/news/new-webinar-for-healthcare-professionals-coming-soon/

I'm not sure I will read this but I thought this was interesting: People will recall a score of 60+ was a recovery criterion in the PACE Trial in which Trudie Chalder was a principal investigator.

I'm not sure I will read this but I thought this was interesting: People will recall a score of 60+ was a recovery criterion in the PACE Trial in which Trudie Chalder was a principal investigator.

Cognitive Behavioural Responses Questionnaire questions p.450-2 https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/files/45224441/2015_Lievesley_Kate_0959189_ethesis.pdf

Psychosomatic Medicine. Publish Ahead of Print():, OCT 2017 Psychometric properties & factor structure of a shortened version of Cognitive Behavioural Responses Questionnaire (CBRQ) DOI: 10.1097/PSY.0000000000000536 Ryan EG1, Vitoratou S, Goldsmith KA, Chalder T. PMID: 29023262 Issn Print...

CBT was not mentioned by name nor CBT/GET theories so I found it less annoying than some papers from those of the CBT school of thought.

Were these comparisons controlled for severity of impairment?

They are suggesting depression causes school absence and social functioning problems. But the direction of causality could be in the other direction i.e. missing school and time with friends causes depression. Or both could correlate with severity.

One of the big findings for me is how poor the match between the anxiety scales and structured diagnostic interview was: ---

At least one person had a SF-36 physical functioning score of 100 which would cause me to question the diagnosis (but who knows how they read the questions)

Judging by the numbers, I think there is an error here and they were rated 0-3

Here are the questions that make up the Work and Social Adjustment Scale

They didn't use the gold standard psychiatric interview: