I think it is irrelevant to the concern I expressed whether anxiety and depression are thought of as physiological or mental health diseases....
The whole personality and behavioural field is far less sophisticated that it appears from a distance. I have been shocked at how ratings of...
Typically, symptoms such as fatigue and headaches and behaviours such as thinking about your health are taken to be evidence of somatization. I...
Not at all. The BASC scale has 4 sub scales, so you can just look at one or more sub scale if you want. We see that happening all the time....
Did you read the cortisol thread we started to answer your earlier question? It's not complete yet, but it shows that there have been many studies...
Frankly, that is even more frightening than having some aggregated finding that the cohort of young people are, on average, somaticising. So, is...
But, can't you see that the scales are collecting information that is hopelessly biased by the young people's chronic health condition? I think...
Sorry, I'm not understanding your reply. There currently doesn't seem to be any basis for believing that cortisol levels are abnormal in ME/CFS....
Shane Reti was the Health Minister, he has been replaced today. Shane Reti, a doctor, was no friend of people with ME/CFS, I've mentioned a...
:) I say again, to do this work.
Well done on getting this lecturer interested in ME/CFS. I don't think she would have asked you if she didn't think that you could help the...
This sounds like a great initiative from the lecturer. If you Lidia or anyone took up the invitation, I'm sure members here would be pleased to...
Thanks @forestglip for that very useful summary of the webinar. Regarding that Long Covid study of risk taking in a contrived setting, there are...
And how do you answer those questions when your child is now ill? Perhaps the child was a joyful energetic social young person before becoming...
I've made a thread to look more closely at the second survey there: Behaviour Assessment System for Children, BASC - a discussion It has questions...
Behavior Assessment System for Children, Parent Rating Scales (BASC- PRS) is being used by a current study investigating omics in young people...
@MelbME, I wonder if your team has really thought carefully about why they need to do those surveys I listed above in a project that is tracking...
From another thread: So half of the Dunedin study cohort (over 1000 people) would have qualified as having MDD at one of the time points that...
This study of young people is using HADS Serial Paediatrics Omics Tracking in [ME] (SPOT-ME): protocol paper for a multidisciplinary,...
@MelbME, did you have any comments on the lack of evidence for cortisol being a problem in ME/CFS? I think the plain language summary rather...
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