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  1. Sly Saint
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    Article Employer News: Invisible disabilities: Supporting your colleagues with ME/CFS

    Not all disabilities are visible. Most HR professionals are well aware of this but it bears repeating today, when large swathes of the population...
    Thread by: Sly Saint, Dec 13, 2021, 0 replies, in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  2. Sly Saint
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    Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Occupational Status: A Retrospective Longitudinal Study, 2021, Chalder et al

    Abstract Aims. This paper explores socio-demographic, work and clinical characteristics that are associated with occupational status among...
    Thread by: Sly Saint, Nov 14, 2021, 74 replies, in forum: PsychoSocial ME/CFS Research
  3. Andy
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    Supporting patients with long COVID return to work, 2021, Madan, Briggs and Chew-Graham

    Post-COVID-19 syndrome, often called ‘long COVID’ refers to signs and/or symptoms that develop following COVID-19 infection, which continue for...
    Thread by: Andy, Oct 30, 2021, 27 replies, in forum: Epidemics (including Covid-19)
  4. Andy
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    UK: Video: Disability employment gap - Commons Work and Pensions Committee - 28 April 2021

    "The Commons Work and Pensions Committee is investigating the gap between the employment rates of disabled and non-disabled people and how the...
    Thread by: Andy, Apr 29, 2021, 4 replies, in forum: General disability topics and advocacy
  5. Sly Saint
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    UK article: Occupational Health the key to helping employers understand, and support, less well-known conditions

    Less common, or less well-known or understood, health conditions such as auto-immune diseases, ME, epilepsy and MS can often go under the radar...
    Thread by: Sly Saint, Apr 9, 2021, 1 replies, in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  6. leokitten
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    Who Are We Without Our Jobs? — The Cut

    https://www.thecut.com/2021/02/who-are-we-without-our-jobs.html
    Thread by: leokitten, Feb 5, 2021, 20 replies, in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  7. Dolphin
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    Impact of Q-fever fatigue syndrome on patients’ work status, 2020, Reukers et al

    Free full text: https://academic.oup.com/occmed/advance-article/doi/10.1093/occmed/kqaa166/5929827 Impact of Q-fever fatigue syndrome on...
    Thread by: Dolphin, Oct 24, 2020, 11 replies, in forum: PsychoSocial ME/CFS Research
  8. Esther12
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    Are Reports of Psychological Stress Higher in Occupational Studies? A Systematic Review... (2013) Goodwin, Hotopf, Wessely, etc

    I thought that this was of some interest as it has Wessely seeming to be unusually open about the limitations of questionnaires for assessing...
    Thread by: Esther12, Oct 8, 2020, 5 replies, in forum: Other Health News and Research
  9. Andy
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    Graded exercise therapy doesn’t restore the ability to work in ME/CFS. Rethinking of a Cochrane review, 2020, Vink & Vink-Niese

    BACKGROUND: Cochrane recently amended its exercise review for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) in response to an...
    Thread by: Andy, Jun 23, 2020, 24 replies, in forum: PsychoSocial ME/CFS Research
  10. Andy
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    Work Rehabilitation and Medical Retirement for [ME/CFS] Patients. A Review and Appraisal of Diagnostic Strategies, 2019, Vink et al

    Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome leads to severe functional impairment and work disability in a considerable number of patients....
    Thread by: Andy, Sep 20, 2019, 42 replies, in forum: PsychoSocial ME/CFS Research
  11. Andy
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    Picnics – not work – are a health outcome, say activists

    A new campaign aims to force the government to scrap its insistence that finding a job or returning to work is an important health “outcome” for...
    Thread by: Andy, Aug 20, 2019, 7 replies, in forum: Other Health News and Research
  12. Esther12
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    Factors associated with work status in chronic fatigue syndrome (2019) S A M Stevelink, N T Fear, M Hotopf, T Chalder

    I was sure I'd seen this posted here, but now cannot see it. They say "The early involvement of occupational health practitioners is recommended...
    Thread by: Esther12, Aug 4, 2019, 43 replies, in forum: PsychoSocial ME/CFS Research
  13. John Mac
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    Unemployment and work disability in individuals with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis: study from Spain (2019) Castro-Marrero et al

    Study conducted by a Hospital CFS/ME unit in Barcelona, Spain. Background Few reports have examined the association between unemployment and...
    Thread by: John Mac, Jun 28, 2019, 3 replies, in forum: PsychoSocial ME/CFS Research
  14. Andy
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    Mansel Aylward on BPS, ME/CFS and Long Covid

    Blaming the victim, all over again: Waddell and Aylward’s biopsychosocial (BPS) model of disability, 2016, Shakespeare et al Abstract The...
    Thread by: Andy, Mar 11, 2019, 13 replies, in forum: PsychoSocial ME/CFS News
  15. JohnTheJack
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    Relationship btwn CFS, burnout, job satisfaction, social support & age among academics at a tertiary institution (2019) Coetzee et al

    Available here: http://ijomeh.eu/The-relationship-between-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-burnout-job-satisfaction-social,91021,0,2.html Not a...
    Thread by: JohnTheJack, Feb 26, 2019, 9 replies, in forum: PsychoSocial ME/CFS Research
  16. Andy
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    Trial By Error: Action For ME’s Employment Advice

    Action For ME is the largest charity for this disease in the UK. It is also the charity responsible for enabling the PACE trial through its...
    Thread by: Andy, Jan 23, 2019, 18 replies, in forum: General ME/CFS News
  17. Andy
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    UK: ME Association: Job vacancies

    The ME Association is looking to recruit someone to help expand our social media presence in the M.E. community and to make more of an impact in...
    Thread by: Andy, Dec 12, 2018, 5 replies, in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  18. Andy
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    Chronically-ill 37-year-old lands first ever job, thanks to ground-breaking UK charity

    Victoria Clutton calls for employment barriers to be removed for the long-term ill, as ASTRiiD (Available Skills for Training, Refreshing,...
    Thread by: Andy, Dec 8, 2018, 6 replies, in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  19. Andy
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    Switching Focus: Whose responsibility to improve disabled people’s employment and pay

    Introduction This report addresses the question of whether there is a set of policy levers that could, together, encourage employers to improve...
    Thread by: Andy, Dec 1, 2018, 0 replies, in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
  20. Andy
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    Blog: Changing the system so that more chronically ill people can work

    In May, I started my first ever job which I found through a wonderful charity called Astriid. My job is five hours a week, working from home, with...
    Thread by: Andy, Oct 18, 2018, 1 replies, in forum: Work, Finances and Disability Insurance
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