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I’ve been reading this 2013 study by Friedberg et al. Chronic fatigue self-management in primary care: a randomized trial. This isn’t a study of ME/CFS, but the paper claims that 39% of the 111 randomized participants did meet diagnostic criteria for CFS (Fukuda-criteria). I don’t think the...

Some revelations about shenanigans at NICE - the IAPT team is in charge of the NICE guidelines for ME/CFS - as flagged up by Hope 4 Fibro & ME Northern Ireland - back in 2017!!! According to the IAPT webpage it's still listing the "CFS/ME" guideline as under their control - that's the...

(Not sure exactly what these are, but results are due I think?) PRINCE Primary: Integrated GP Care for Persistent Physical Symptoms - a Feasibility & Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial (PRINCE Primary) Sponsor: King's College London Collaborator: South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust...

This thread has been created by merging several threads on social prescribing BBC News: More 'social prescribers' to ease pressure on GPs. 28.01.19 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-46999922

An alarming-sounding study ("Fearful beliefs about activity could be targeted using cognitive-behavioural interventions.")! Source: Journal of Behavioral Medicine Preprint Date: January 25, 2019 URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10865-019-00010-x Psychological and demographic...

This isn't of huge interest, but I thought I'd post up for newer members who might be interested in reading a short summary from Sharpe. I find it kind of amazing to see how confidently they asserted their views on the basis of such flimsy evidence. They talk of providing 'positive...

An old study but, as shown in this thread, https://s4me.info/threads/top-10-sc...f-citations-tweet-by-dr-mark-gutheridge.7461/, one of the most cited ME/CFS papers in the past 10 years, so thought it might be useful to have here. Open access at...

This has come up as a reference in a new study, so I thought I'd create a separate thread for it. Open access at https://adc.bmj.com/content/102/1/35

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/21/health/medical-uncertainty-diagnosis-afm/index.html

Not sure whether this is really relevant, but the reference to kynurenine looked interesting. NB participants include some dodgy people, e.g. Trudie Chalder. Source: University of Essex (or Sussex?) Date: November 29, 2018 URL: http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/80506/ Persistent fatigue induced by...

Here's a weird one: A 4-day mindfulness-based cognitive behavioural intervention program for CFS/ME. An open study, with one-year follow-up. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00720/abstract These people seem to be implying that four days of CBT will fix your "CFS/ME"...

Saw this linked to on Facebook. Full paper available at https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/23f4ba_ae3ffbf6ff614c669f1e6ad9420a2dc9.pdf I'm puzzled about where this was actually published. In the document linked to above it says On what appears to be the website of the Journal of Biological...

Didn't know where to post this or if it has been posted before; https://www.qmul.ac.uk/wolfson/media/wolfson/ref-2014-results/UoA2-chronic_fatigue_syndrome.pdf We have so much to thank QMUL for

https://www.csp.org.uk/frontline/article/childrens-pain-we-can-make-it-better links to FITNET another of NICE guidelines committee members.

Presentation (PDF Available) · July 2018 with 37 Reads DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.29883.52009 British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, DOI:10.13140/RG.2.2.29883.52009...

"The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Pathway for People with Long-term Physical Health Conditions and Medically Unexplained Symptoms. Full implementation guidance"...

yet another psychotherapy: "A large proportion of the identified studies treated patients suffering from anxiety and depression (see Table 1). There were eight trials on depressive disorders. Of these, seven were on major depressive disorder, whereas one study also included a small proportion...

Source: Disability and Rehabilitation Preprint Date: November 18, 2018 URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09638288.2018.1504994 Effects of activity pacing in patients with chronic conditions associated with fatigue complaints: A meta-analysis...

How do we educate all the doctors who believe ME/CFS is psychosomatic? In this Psychology Today article from 2016 "Explaining the Unexplainable: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome", Howard Schubiner M.D. states that: "It is my opinion, and the opinion of a group of physicians and mental health...

The abstract made it sound like another study that tries to confuse association and causation where their data didn't really support their narrative, but I stopped reading before getting to their results... too many infuriating unfounded claims to read before bed in just the intro. Funded by MS...