Efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy targeting severe fatigue following COVID-19: results of a randomized controlled trial 2023, Kuut, Knoop et al

[Sean]

The study funding and approval committees, and the peer-review journals, are as much to blame as the authors.

Psych is rotten to the core, and failing at its most basic obligations to veracity and patient welfare.

 

[SNT Gatchaman]

Listed as one of the top 20 research articles for 2024 in American Family Physician

Am Fam Physician: Top 20 Research Studies of 2024 for Primary Care Physicians

ROLAND GRAD, MD, MSc, is an associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine at McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

MARK H. EBELL MD, MS, is a professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Michigan State University, East Lansing.

 

[bobbler]

The study funding and approval committees, and the peer-review journals, are as much to blame as the authors.

Psych is rotten to the core, and failing at its most basic obligations to veracity and patient welfare.

Indeed, I think this is a to-do list area (even if they are ignored it is a line in the sand on it being proper ethics) to have some documents noting specific things that are not OK or required for ME/CFS-based studies and underlining that not doing this is taking advantage and a welfare issue.

JUst so that these terms are actually said somewhere and we stop getting the 'yeah, yeah as if a survey harms someone severe' taunt from the same people who are doing something disingenuous but just trying to do the laugh it off reply when they get pulled up on what is plain obvious.


And yes, if they'd do this for other vulnerable populations too then at least hopefully we've done something good for them because it shouldn't be happenning, and them not being aware of it is cringe-worthy lack of empathy in the basic 'put yourself in the shoes' theory of mind reality of that term (not their misinterpretation of it as sympathy/fake fawning words).