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...
Not read the whole thing but potentially they could be looking at some undiagnosed PwME here.
Open access at http://www.psychiatryinvestigation.org/journal/view.php?doi=10.30773/pi.2018.10.22.3
As retweeted by AfME
some bits are good, but
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Action for ME continue to say that having a well informed GP to assist with both depression and ME is important. Having appropriate and different treatments are vital, so that the mental health treatments don’t make the neurological side of ME...
Paper: Traditional Chinese medicinal herbs for the treatment of idiopathic chronic fatigue and chronic fatigue syndrome
Authors: Denise Adams, Taixiang Wu, Xunzhe Yang, Shusheng Tai, Sunita Vohra
Date: October 15, 2018
URL...
I've put this in Research Unrelated to ME/CFS for the time being as the authors seem to do lot of flip-flopping between Chronic Fatigue and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, it could be that it should be in Psychosocial Research.
Open access at...
Oxford criteria - should papers using it be excluded
This is a subject that has been raised a lot, so I thought it might be good to have a thread.
I only recently started looking into it a bit further than the basic diagnostic criteria.
see...
Abstract
OBJECTIVES:
Fatigue is a prevalent and debilitating symptom, preceded by an acute infectious episode in some patients. This systematic review aimed to identify risk factors for the development of persistent fatigue after an acute infection, to develop an evidence-based working model of...
Split from here.
While posting related papers, I'm afraid I just saw this Moss-Morris review was recently given a prize place on wikipedia's CFS entry:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28712416
Esther Crawley is a Professor of Child Health at the University of Bristol with a Senior Research Fellowship from the National Institute of Health Research.
She dedicates her waking hours to finding and delivering treatments for children whose lives have been devastated by Chronic Fatigue and...
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