(Not a recommendation) Bath University, Volunteer for research investigating Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

[Webdog]

Patients just need a bit of “shopping therapy” to help improve their mood? Lift a grocery bag to overcome a fear of exercise?

Cognitive and behavioral “treatments” on a budget.

 

[Revel]

Cognitive and behavioral “treatments” on a budget.

"Coming to a Poundland near you . . ."

 

[FreeSarah]

 

[Forbin]

Could have been worse... They might have asked patients to listen to this.

 

[WillowJ]

So. much. waste.

at what point does their institution care?
or the funder?

or any person who doesn't have a friend/family with The Disease?

 

[Sly Saint]

I wouldn't mind volunteering for this as long as they allowed me to film them filming me and when it was over we could sit down and watch my film and they could describe their thoughts and feelings and emotions on having wasted their careers.

"You will receive a £10 voucher and contribution towards travel as a thank you for taking part in the study."
you might even get a free shopping bag(?)

eta: if they threw in a months grocery shopping it might be a bigger incentive

 

[Arnie Pye]

Is the prospective new treatment Graded Shopping Therapy? You start off on the first aisle at Waitrose -I don't suppose they shop at Tesco -and buy the end of the course they'll have you running up and down all of them and making it through check out. I can almost remember what it was like to do such things.

Are you describing the latest version of Supermarket Sweep?

On 13 October 2017, it was announced that FremantleMedia had acquired the global rights to the format and confirmed that the series will return.

Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale's_Supermarket_Sweep

 

[chrisb]

I know nothing about that. But perhaps it explains the failure of GET. What they need is prizes.

 

[Sly Saint]

Although the project is supervised by Dr Daniels, the Lead Researcher for this project is Samantha Lloyd.

She co-authored this:
Corrigendum to “Telephone-based guided self-help for adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome: A non-randomised cohort study” [Behav Res Ther 50 (5) (2012) 304–312]
with none other than Trudie Chalder

https://www.researchgate.net/public...cohort_study_Behav_Res_Ther_50_5_2012_304-312

 

[Invisible Woman]

Corrigendum:

1. An error to be corrected, especially a printer's error.
2. corrigenda A list of errors in a book along with theircorrections.

from:
https://www.thefreedictionary.com/corrigendum

Well, there's a new one....

 

[dangermouse]

The page has an error code on it?

 

[Esther12]

The page has an error code on it?

That's weird. It has been taken off-line. It's been archived here: https://web.archive.org/web/2018042...earch-investigating-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/

 

[alktipping]

"You will receive a £10 voucher and contribution towards travel as a thank you for taking part in the study."
you might even get a free shopping bag(?)

eta: if they threw in a months grocery shopping it might be a bigger incentive

if they could film you carrying it lol

 

[Alvin]

That's weird. It has been taken off-line. It's been archived here: https://web.archive.org/web/2018042...earch-investigating-chronic-fatigue-syndrome/

Indeed, we got lucky this was saved so quickly on the Internet Archive

 

[Snow Leopard]

Although the project is supervised by Dr Daniels, the Lead Researcher for this project is Samantha Lloyd.

She co-authored this:
Corrigendum to “Telephone-based guided self-help for adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome: A non-randomised cohort study” [Behav Res Ther 50 (5) (2012) 304–312]
with none other than Trudie Chalder

https://www.researchgate.net/public...cohort_study_Behav_Res_Ther_50_5_2012_304-312

Corrigendum[/B]]The authors regret to inform you that during recent further analyses of data used in the above paper, it has come to light that there was an error reported in this paper. The school attendance variable had been coded incorrectly for one set of analyses so that the findings are in the reverse direction to those reported. The corrections are published below: Table 4 (p. 310) Title should read: ‘Good outcome for school attendance at 6 month follow-up.’ (rather than poor outcome). Abstract should read: “univariate logistic regression found baseline perfectionism to be associated with better school attendance at sixmonth follow-up” (rather than ‘poorer’). The results (p. 310) should read: “In univariate analyses, baseline self-oriented perfectionism and socially-prescribed perfectionism were found to be significantly associated with increased odds of having a good outcome for attendance” (rather than ‘poor’). The paragraph in the Discussion on p. 310, beginning “This is the first study to show that higher baseline levels of perfectionism are associated with lower school attendance..” should be corrected to: “This is the first study to show that higher baseline levels of perfectionism are associated with higher school attendance following an intervention for CFS in adolescents. It is possible that more perfectionistic adolescents were more eager to return to school, perhaps due to concerns about their performance. This finding is in contrast to other studies, for example in eating disorders, which have found perfectionism to be associated with poorer outcome (Bizeul et al., 2001; Sutander-Pinnock et al., 2003). The authors send our sincere apologies for this error and any inconvenience caused.

I guess they can't claim that "perfectionism" is necessarily "mal-adaptive" when it comes to meaningful outcomes now.

 

[Woolie]

I guess they can't claim that "perfectionism" is necessarily "mal-adaptive" when it comes to meaningful outcomes now.

What a complete and total cluster***!

Wonder what prompted them to own up to the massive error? Moral courage? Fear of getting found out? Someone important noticing something fishy? Its fascinating to speculate!

 

[chrisb]

You would think that the original findings would have caused them to double and treble check the conclusions - unless they were more than happy with them.

 

[Andy]

 

[rvallee]

Kind of telling that the purpose is policy development, rather than, you know, actually helping people, especially in the context of a review that was forced because there were so many complaints (this detail is really getting lost IMO).

Supply-side medicine, patients need not apply.

 

[Barry]

"I look forward to the opportunity to contribute to scientifically-robust policy development in the field, particularly from a psychologically informed perspective."

Is that an oxymoron.