Psychometric validation of the French Multidimensional Chronic Asthenia Scale (MCAS) in a sample of 621 patients with chronic fatigue Abstract...
Many questionnaires used to measure depression ask about general symptoms such as fatigue, sleep, appetite, concentration etc. People with a...
The Government should remove the requirement for people claiming disability benefits, such as the Personal Independence Payment (PIP), to have to...
Today I post the chart, Questionnaires And Tools That May Be Useful For Assessing ME/CFS (SEID) Symptoms, from Beyond Myalgia Encephalomyelitis:...
From a Chronic Illness Inclusion email; Focus groups on disability benefit assessments Chronic Illness Inclusion wants to hear your experiences...
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) on Monday put on hold in-person assessments for disability benefit claimants as a precautionary measure...
I'm just floating ideas here, and would appreciate some feedback. I have been thinking about the difficulties that ME centres have in measuring...
I've just found this petition which someone has set up to make the recording of PIP assessments mandatory:...
[MEDIA] Meeting being held today 4 September according to this tweet by ME Association.
In a couple of weeks’ time I’ll be meeting with the Minister for Disabled People, Health and Work to raise the recurring issue of access to...
Laura Pidcock Shadow Minister (Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy) (Labour) 2:30 pm, 24th April 2019 I beg to move, That this House has...
Blaming the victim, all over again: Waddell and Aylward’s biopsychosocial (BPS) model of disability, 2016, Shakespeare et al Abstract The...
Deadline of November 10th 2017 to submit your input to the parliamentary inquiry on PIP and ESA [MEDIA] Scope of the inquiry The Committee...
There are a number of tools available for journals to use to help assess RCTs. I wondered if anyone here had 'tried them out' for PACE and/or any...
I didn't follow this awfully well or remember very well, but you can listen from https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09zt3bw#play from 0204-0747 (I...
A court has ruled that a disabled woman should be awarded £5,000 compensation by the government contractor Atos, after a dishonest report by one...
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