Ah yes, I totally agree. If you're interested in exploring this forum further, you may find multiple complaints about how useless and misleading the Chalder questionnaire is, including a detailed analysisOne other thing the long COVID OTs commented on that I thought was interesting was the Chalder Fatigue scale they have to use. Despite having improved in function quite a lot by the time I was discharged, my score on Chalder didn’t change at all. They told me that it often didn’t. Makes you weep for any research done using Chalder. You can’t get any outcome information from a scale like that.
S4ME: Submission to the public review on common data elements for ME/CFS: Problems with the Chalder Fatigue Questionnaire
The ME Association has funded a project to produce better questionnaires that has turned out to be pretty disastrous according to many of us here. We have threads discussing that too.
I think the only useful questionnaire many of us here agree on is FUNCAP (functional capacity).