A clinical study on the effectiveness of biopsychosocial-spiritual treatment approach for diabetic patients, 2020, Khalid and Naz

[Andy]

The purpose of conducting this study was to examine the effectiveness of a biopsychosocial-spiritual model in the management of symptoms of a diabetic patient. A 38-year-old female diagnosed with diabetes complained of bouts of sadness and fatigue, a reduced interaction with others, difficulty in falling asleep, felt irritable and experienced severe pain in the joints. The Siddique Shah Depression scale was used to assess her in a semistructured interview with a subjective rating in which she scored a depression of 293.83 (F06.31) due to diabetes. A total number of 11 sessions were held with her during the implementation phase of the intervention plan. A post assessment was carried out and from the pre and post rating on Siddique Shah Depression Scale, it was evident that her overall symptoms had improvement by 33%. Current study highlights the effectiveness of a biopsychosocial-spiritual treatment approach for managing symptoms associated with diabetes.

Open access, https://jpma.org.pk/article-details/9579

 

[Trish]

A single case study - I'm surprised a journal of a medical association would publish this.

 

[Lidia]

How did they control for the improvements made by getting the newly-diagnosed diabetes managed?

 

[Mithriel]

not enough energy to point out the many flaws in this. It didn't highlight the effectiveness, it only suggested that it may have an effect that someone may like to study.

 

[Invisible Woman]

BPS-S !

 

[Cheshire]

A 38-year-old female diagnosed with diabetes complained of bouts of sadness and fatigue, a reduced interaction with others, difficulty in falling asleep, felt irritable and experienced severe pain in the joints.

So a study on a single patient, having diabetes + "sadness" (depression?) whose outcomes are evaluated on a depression scale, becomes (in the title) a study on diabetes. Seriously?

 

[rvallee]

It was only natural that spiritual pseudoscience would hop on the BPS train. Get all the homeopaths and the acupuncturists and the Reiki specialists on board, you can make all the stuff you want and call it BPS. Then again, acupuncture is already in the mix and Cochrane recently did a review on homeopathy so it's already there.

Seriously, how can medical journals refuse if the style looks sciencey enough at this point? This is the exact same tripe as LP, distance healing and other stuff that was published by reputable journals.

Looking forward to BPS-astrological therapy for gout and hair loss trials. The best part is that all they have to do is run the same experiment with tiny variations, then after a few years point back at the cumulative body of evidence and say it's scientifically validated. The playbook is already validated and when stuff like "don't think about pooping and don't poop all the time" being promoted as headlines by the SMC as a breakthrough, everything goes it seems.

Invite pseudoscience and it will bring all its friends with it. At this point I fully expect an actual gaslighting therapy trial sooner rather than later. As in literally spelling out they intend to gaslight and describe how profoundly they will gaslight and call it aggressive placebo or something. Oh crap, aggressive placebo is totally going to be a thing...

 

[Wonko]

Didn't Moseley and crew already do that on the BBC a while ago (used placebo, told everyone it was placebo and it kept working for as long as the program lasted).

 

[Lidia]

Tying BPS to astrology, sprituality, crystal therapy and fish slapping could be the best thing to happen. The lack of clothing becomes a little more apparent...