I can see how this study would be compelling for doctors and for people considering funding the PACE trial. For sure, the subjective self-report...
Could someone increase their score on the SF-36 by 50 points on the 100 point scale just by reframing how they answer? For example, if you were...
Here they imply that people who did not improve had an incentive to not report improvements. This is interesting. The results of the independent...
I think the primary outcome was what we would call the SF-36 Physical Functioning scale. CBT: Pre-treatment 25.5; Post-treatment 56.2; 6 months...
The CBT group was younger (mean age 31), relaxation group (38). Illness duration was different (CBT 3.4 years....relaxation 4.6 years) More of...
The trial is even worse than that. An enormous amount of work was required from those in the CBT group. There were 13 sessions (CBT vs...
Abstract Longitudinal studies have shown that physical illness attributions are associated with poor prognosis in chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)....
But I think people are quite good at working out if they feel stressed. If they have no particular reason to be stressed and don't feel stressed,...
The thing that Rona seems to miss from that abstract is that if someone is actually suffering from a debilitating physical illness, it would not...
2009 study https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09638230500136548 Rona Moss-Morris Abstract Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is an illness...
Symptom perceptions, illness beliefs and coping in chronic fatigue syndrome Rona Moss-Morris, 2009 It's just hypothesising, and prejudiced...
Illness beliefs and treatment outcome in chronic fatigue syndrome 1998, Deale, Chalder and Wessely I'll make a thread for it if we don't have one....
@dundrum I'll wheel out my family's personal experience once again. Members who have read this already can just scroll on. Some 12 years ago...
Gosh. I guess an MRI brain volume study is perfect to consolidate credentials as 'groundbreaking'. There's always something to report, and there...
I don't think we have seen any consistency in brain value changes. I suspect that what is reported is just individual variation in healthy brains...
Some posts about an Irish functional medicine clinic have been moved here: Ireland: Drummartin Functional Medicine Clinic
It's not that hard to think of things that might make a better study. Perhaps the people that you should be asking, dundrum, are the researchers...
On top of that, we found evidence that the researchers benefitted substantially from reporting what they reported, with a contract with an...
@dundrum, to save you the effort of reading the whole thread, before claiming that this study is a shining example of the evidence that you can...
@dundrum, I'm a bit astonished that you only read the first page of the critique. You really need to read the whole thread before suggesting there...
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