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COVID-19 Infection and Subsequent Psychiatric Morbidity, Sleep Problems and Fatigue: Analysis of an English Primary Care Cohort of 226,521 Positive Patients Abstract Background: While some people who have had COVID-19 experience fatigue and sleep problems long after the acute phase of the...

Dear Editor, Fatigue may be defined as ‘tiredness or exhaustion as a result of mental or physical exertion’ (Dittner et al., 2004). Few studies have examined rates of fatigue among those with psychotic disorders. One Australian exception found that nearly 60% of 93 inpatients were fatigued...

Abstract Objective We investigated the effectiveness of Graded Exercise Therapy (GET) delivered to patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME) in a routine, specialist clinic by measuring patient-reported outcome data collected prospectively over several timepoints alongside therapy...

The spin on this is quite shocking: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medicine/article/efficacy-of-therapistdelivered-transdiagnostic-cbt-for-patients-with-persistent-physical-symptoms-in-secondary-care-a-randomised-controlled-trial/CEDD9B7597902C283BBB7CA7B43A81C7 Efficacy...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022399914001883?via%3Dihub (was this data ever released?)

Part of: BJPsych Advances Cochrane Corner and Round the Corner Collection Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 April 2018 " Editor's summary In a recent Round the Corner, Mitchell commented on a Cochrane Review of exercise therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). One of the...

obviously not new. " Summary Background The PACE trial found that, when added to specialist medical care (SMC), cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), or graded exercise therapy (GET) were superior to adaptive pacing therapy (APT) or SMC alone in improving fatigue and physical functioning in...

"Highlights • Adolescents with CFS, asthma and healthy controls undertook an exercise task. • Those with CFS took longer to complete a laboratory-based exercise task than controls. • They (and their parents) expected to perform worse. • They were more anxious pre-task and rated their performance...

" Abstract Background The PHQ-9 is a self-administered depression screening instrument. Little is known about its utility and accuracy in detecting depression in adults with dissociative seizures (DS). Objectives Using the Mini – International Neuropsychiatric Interview as a reference, we...

The SURECAN study (Survivors’ Rehabilitation Evaluation after Cancer) is a programme grant funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) under the prestigious Programme Grants for Applied Research funding stream. The SURECAN programme consists of six inter-digitating work streams...

Paywall, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medicine/article/abs/role-of-lifetime-stressors-in-adult-fibromyalgia-systematic-review-and-metaanalysis-of-casecontrol-studies/5329C49CDEF274DD931A544514EC4E8A

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09638237.2021.1875418

preprint https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.25.21250436v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.01.25.21250436v1.full.pdf

https://www.rcpjournals.org/content/clinmedicine/21/1/13 This is barely worth posting, but I read it. It's so basic it felt like it was written for children - is that because it's in a journal for doctors rather than researchers? So many strong assertions ("The first and most important step is...

Paywall, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1359104520978461 Sci hub, https://sci-hub.se/10.1177/1359104520978461

preprint https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.04.20244145v2 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.04.20244145v2.full.pdf

Open access, https://www.jmir.org/2020/11/e18691

Full title: BMC family practice integrated GP care for patients with persistent physical symptoms: feasibility cluster randomised trial [Worth noting that the intended study title was probably "Integrated GP care for patients with persistent physical symptoms: feasibility cluster randomised...

Trudie Chalder & Claire Willis (2017) “Lumping” and “splitting” medically unexplained symptoms: is there a role for a transdiagnostic approach?, Journal of Mental Health, 26:3, 187-191, DOI: 10.1080/09638237.2017.1322187 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09638237.2017.1322187 (Open...

Optimising engagement and outcomes for patients with Functional/Medically Unexplained Symptoms This conference will be delivered on Zoom. This event has been approved by The British Psychological Society for the purposes of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and by the Royal College of...