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Full title: Cost-effectiveness of Interventions for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or Myalgic Encephalomyelitis: A Systematic Review of Economic Evaluations Open access, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40258-021-00635-7

This thread has been split from a thread discussing a book about Ron Davis: The Puzzle Solver by Tracie White I've been following ME/CFS research and news and reading forums for over 25 years. I think that the UK has played a much bigger part internationally in psychologising the condition and...

They talk, in the abstract, about chronic fatigue only, but the patients they discuss have gone through a "CFS/ME" assessment, so may or may not have ME. Open access, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01459740.2021.1883011 This part possibly explains a bit more clearly what the...

Full title: Who should we ask about mental health symptoms in adolescents with CFS/ME? Parent-child agreement on the revised children’s anxiety and depression scale Open access, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1359104521994880

https://slate.com/technology/2021/02/chronic-pain-neuroscience-education-running-joy.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab-intl-en Content warning: When the article says neuroscience, they really mean "neuroscience" ;). Some excerpts: This is an "interesting" bit: This bit... hmmm:

Open access, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00787-021-01734-5

I haven't searched for more info on this yet. https://www.bristol.ac.uk/academic-child-health/grants/

https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/9/2/168

preprint https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.25.21250436v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.25.21250436v1.full.pdf

https://www.rcpjournals.org/content/clinmedicine/21/1/13 This is barely worth posting, but I read it. It's so basic it felt like it was written for children - is that because it's in a journal for doctors rather than researchers? So many strong assertions ("The first and most important step is...

Full title: “it’s a medical condition … you need to support as much as possible”: a qualitative analysis of teachers’ experiences of chronic fatigue syndrome / myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) https://bmcpediatr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12887-020-02461-7 ETA link to article

https://translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12967-020-02683-4

This study aims to assess whether raised CRP (a blood test used as a marker of inflammation) is associated with probable depression in children and young people with CFS/ME. CACH team: Sandy Royston, Maria Loades, Esther Crawley...

Open access, https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/9/12/4106/htm

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/academic-child-health/research/research/cfsme/exfactr-study/ ACT, 'new' replacement for CBT. A favourite of Trudie Chalder. @dave30th

"The chronic fatigue syndrome: source of controversy." van der Meer et al. "prognostic factors (recovery is limited when symptom are attributed to a somatic cause and in psychiatric comorbidity)." No mention of his own studies promoting CBT/GET. He prefers pointing fingers at others instead...

Paywall, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1359104520978461 Sci hub, https://sci-hub.se/10.1177/1359104520978461

Open access, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022399920308849

https://www.medicinejournal.co.uk/article/S1357-3039(20)30229-2/pdf https://scihubtw.tw/10.1016/j.mpmed.2020.09.007 Psychiatric aspects of general medicine| Volume 48, ISSUE 12, P765-768, December 01, 2020 fish and chips paper.

Open access, https://mcpiqojournal.org/article/S2542-4548(20)30153-3/fulltext