(I wish switzerland were as pragmatic as other western countries on this. But really Education is seen as either something full time or not at...
Probably worth mentioning that to them in an email reply. Also, Hi! Welcome to S4ME :)
Except they’ve classified those issues into a made up category which implies the issues are psychsomatic.
Maybe it’s a way for their paper to get more attention/be more memorable. Which seems to be a priority of researchers for some reason.
I’ve heard of stories where people pushed themselves to do it and ended up having permanent worsenings of the illness… (which they attributed to...
Thanks :hug:
Urgh. That’s the same hospital they have the only “CFS” clinic in the country which is psychosomatic as well. Their “chronic fatigue” page tells...
Isn’t that beside the point though. A single outcome (both subjective and objective) has confounders that don’t tell us much. The point is to...
I think the biggest impact by far would be patients and their family (especially the kind that seem to believe, if it’s published in a prestigious...
I’d call 50% reduction in functioning something that could be objectively measured.
The closest thing I know of would be: How to prove that your therapy is effective, even when it is not: a guideline, 2015, Cristea & Cuijpers
What I don’t get is dumdrum seems to argue that subjective measures are more relevent in ME because objective measures don’t directly measure ME....
I think we’ve shown it generally isn’t the case for the average person, just as GET has been shown not to work for the average pwME. But...
It reminds me of the saying/joke in urban planning spaces about road traffic “Just one more lane will fix it, I promise” (when it doesn’t really...
Is there a detailed chapter by chapter summary of this somewhere? I’d very much like to read this but don’t have the energy to actually buy or...
cf. replication crisis for the results of the problematic methodological foundations of psychology. Probably also been brought up, but there is a...
It wouldn't be the process of vision but the process of interpreting that vision. Your brain does a lot of work processing the input into your...
Discussion on HADS and potential issues with it here: https://www.s4me.info/threads/the-hospital-anxiety-and-depression-scale-hads-a-discussion.10160/
Very useful summary/commentary here:...
Just realised you’re new here. Welcome @Emily Marcel glad to have you here. Feel free to make a thread introducing yourself if you’d like :)
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