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  1. Sly Saint
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    Could negative outcomes of psychotherapies be contributing to the lack of an overall population effect from the Australian Better Access initiative?

    Abstract Objective We examine deterioration in psychotherapies, as reported in the recent evaluation of the Australian Medicare Better Access...
    Thread by: Sly Saint, May 31, 2023, 5 replies, in forum: Other health news and research
  2. V.R.T.
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    Collecting testimonies from people whose ME worsened from following psychosomatic advice

    It has occurred to me that it might be useful to collect testimonies of people like myself who accepted a psychosomatic theory of their disease,...
    Thread by: V.R.T., May 26, 2023, 12 replies, in forum: General Advocacy Discussions
  3. Forestvon
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    GET dropouts not followed up survey

    Some time ago there was a survey sent to CFS clinics in the UK asking if they followed up dropout patients to see if they dropped out because...
    Thread by: Forestvon, Apr 29, 2023, 1 replies, in forum: UK clinics and doctors
  4. Tom Kindlon
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    Treatment Harms to Patients with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, 2022, Marks

    Free full text:...
    Thread by: Tom Kindlon, Feb 1, 2023, 8 replies, in forum: Psychosomatic research - ME/CFS and Long Covid
  5. hinterland
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    Covid-19 vaccines and vaccinations

    The Pfizer press release reports that protection is achieved 28 days after initiation of the first dose of vaccine. Whereas you can develop covid...
    Thread by: hinterland, Dec 3, 2020, 1,238 replies, in forum: Epidemics (including Covid-19, not Long Covid)
  6. Purple
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    Is there evidence that GET is harmful?

    There's a thread dating from four years ago about GET and whether there is good evidence it is actually harmful. I was wondering whether there has...
    Thread by: Purple, Dec 27, 2022, 0 replies, in forum: Psychosomatic theories and treatments discussions
  7. Sly Saint
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    Holistic or harmful? Examining socio-structural factors in biopsychosocial model of chronic illness,‘MUS’& disability, 2022, Hunt

    Holistic or harmful? Examining socio-structural factors in the biopsychosocial model of chronic illness, ‘medically unexplained symptoms’ and...
    Thread by: Sly Saint, Jul 25, 2022, 42 replies, in forum: Other psychosomatic news and research
  8. John Mac
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    School-based mindfulness training in early adolescence: what works, for whom and how in the MYRIAD trial?, 2022, Montero-Marin et al

    Abstract here Links to related MYRIAD papers here Giving teenagers mindfulness lessons at school to boost wellbeing is largely a waste of time,...
    Thread by: John Mac, Jul 13, 2022, 19 replies, in forum: Other psychosomatic news and research
  9. Andy
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    Medically unexplained or not? Be aware of a somatic cause of Medically Unexplained Symptoms, 2022, Hilderink and van Vugt

    Abstract In 2 cases of men aged 26 and 55 respectively we illustrate the complexity of MUS patients since in both cases a somatic diagnosis was...
    Thread by: Andy, May 3, 2022, 25 replies, in forum: Other psychosomatic news and research
  10. JohnTheJack
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    Evie Toombes case: patients who suffer harm when doctors don't follow best practice

    This case may seem remote from ME, but it may have general implications for patients who suffer harm when doctors do not follow best practice....
    Thread by: JohnTheJack, Dec 2, 2021, 1 replies, in forum: Other health news and research
  11. Lucibee
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    United Kingdom: Petition: Set up a national harms reporting scheme for non-pharmacological treatments

    OK. I'm off to jump through a few hoops. brb... (in about a week) Seems someone got in there first... :wink:...
    Thread by: Lucibee, Nov 19, 2021, 27 replies, in forum: Petitions
  12. John Mac
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    United Kingdom: Petition Change.org: for a new mechanism by which M.E/C.F.S patients can report harms.

    https://www.change.org/p/department-of-health-and-social-care-we-demand-the-creation-of-a-new-mechanism-by-which-m-e-c-f-s-patients-can-report-harm...
    Thread by: John Mac, Nov 2, 2021, 35 replies, in forum: Petitions
  13. JohnTheJack
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    Adverse event recording failed to reflect potential harms: review trial protocols psychosocial interventions, 2021, Papaioannou, Cooper et al

    Full title: Adverse event recording failed to reflect potential harms: a review of trial protocols of behavioral, lifestyle and psychological...
    Thread by: JohnTheJack, Sep 29, 2021, 1 replies, in forum: Research methodology news and research
  14. Sly Saint
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    Potentially harmful therapies: A meta-scientific review of evidential value, 2021, Williams et al.

    paper here: https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2021-45656-003 Potentially harmful therapies: A meta-scientific review of evidential value. Abstract...
    Thread by: Sly Saint, Sep 18, 2021, 5 replies, in forum: Other research methodology topics
  15. Sly Saint
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    Informed Consent

    Given the recent admission Andrew Goddard: "There is reasonable evidence, for example, that graded exercise therapy helps a group of patients with...
    Thread by: Sly Saint, Aug 31, 2021, 32 replies, in forum: General Advocacy Discussions
  16. Sly Saint
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    Evidence-Based Practice and Psychological Treatments: The Imperatives of Informed Consent 2016

    This article although not about ME/CFS has been cited in a number of papers: Citations of: Evidence-Based Practice and Psychological Treatments:...
    Thread by: Sly Saint, Jun 21, 2021, 2 replies, in forum: Research methodology news and research
  17. Sly Saint
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    Article: EVE SIMMONS: Why I believe raking over the past ISN’T always good for our mental health

    Seventeen years after losing my father to cancer – a few days shy of my 13th birthday – I can still hear the nurse’s words: ‘Daddy’s gone,...
    Thread by: Sly Saint, Jun 18, 2021, 9 replies, in forum: Other health news and research
  18. Andy
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    Physical exercise is a risk factor for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: Convergent evidence from Mendelian randomisation.., 2021, Julian et al

    Full title: Physical exercise is a risk factor for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: Convergent evidence from Mendelian randomisation,...
    Thread by: Andy, Jun 11, 2021, 8 replies, in forum: Other health news and research
  19. Dolphin
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    Adverse outcomes in trials of graded exercise therapy for adult patients with chronic fatigue syndrome, 2021, White & Etherington

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022399921001781 Journal of Psychosomatic Research Available online 28 May 2021, 110533 In...
    Thread by: Dolphin, May 31, 2021, 92 replies, in forum: Psychosomatic research - ME/CFS and Long Covid
  20. Sly Saint
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    Adverse events & deterioration reported by participants in the PACE trial of therapies for chronic fatigue syndrome, 2014, Sharpe,White,Chalder et al

    Highlights • This study shows the distribution of adverse events in a trial of treatments for CFS. • Non-serious adverse events were common, but...
    Thread by: Sly Saint, May 9, 2021, 1 replies, in forum: Psychosomatic research - ME/CFS and Long Covid
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