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  1. Sly Saint
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    NPCS - Needs Provision and Complexity Scale for Long Term Neurological Conditions - KCL

    Background King’s researchers have been working to identify those in need of specialist rehabilitation, define their individual needs and tailor...
    Thread by: Sly Saint, Nov 7, 2021, 0 replies, in forum: Other Health News and Research
  2. Sly Saint
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    Measurement Methods for Physical Activity and Energy Expenditure: a Review, 2017, Ndahimana, Kim

    Abstract Physical activity is defined as any bodily movement produced by skeletal muscles that results in energy expenditure. The benefits of...
    Thread by: Sly Saint, Oct 19, 2021, 0 replies, in forum: Other Health News and Research
  3. Sly Saint
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    Laboratory and field methods for measuring human energy expenditure 2012 Leonard

    Abstract Energetics research is central to the field of human biology. Energy is an important currency for measuring adaptation, because both its...
    Thread by: Sly Saint, Oct 19, 2021, 0 replies, in forum: Other Health News and Research
  4. Andy
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    A Womanist Approach to Caring for Patients With Empirically Unverifiable Symptoms, 2021, Gatison

    Abstract Some illnesses and diseases are not apparent to onlookers. Conditions like chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, multiple sclerosis,...
    Thread by: Andy, Aug 6, 2021, 1 replies, in forum: PsychoSocial ME/CFS Research
  5. Andy
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    Questioning Biomedicine’s Privileging of Disease and Measurability, 2021, Kroll

    Abstract Within biomedicine, the diagnosis of disease is often privileged over a patient’s experience of illness. Yet up to 30% of primary care...
    Thread by: Andy, Aug 6, 2021, 24 replies, in forum: PsychoSocial ME/CFS Research
  6. Andy
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    In progress: Measuring Health in Children with CFS/ME: Refinement, application and evaluation of new PROM (PEACH) in routine practice, Crawley et al

    Funded study in progress. Abstract: Background: Paediatric Chronic Fatigue Syndrome or Myalgic Encaphalistis (CFS/ME) is disabling and...
    Thread by: Andy, Jun 10, 2021, 16 replies, in forum: PsychoSocial ME/CFS Research
  7. Sly Saint
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    Measuring mitochondrial function

    Copied post Parameters of mitochondrial function and energy stress sensing were assessed by Seahorse extracellular flux analysis this might be of...
    Thread by: Sly Saint, Jun 6, 2021, 0 replies, in forum: Laboratory and Genetic Testing
  8. Andy
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    Assessment of functional somatic disorders in epidemiological research: Self-report questionnaires vs diagnostic interviews,2021, Petersen, Fink et al

    Highlights • Prevalence of diagnoses were lower in the diagnostic interview than in self-reported questionnaires. • Discrepancies constituted the...
    Thread by: Andy, Apr 24, 2021, 5 replies, in forum: PsychoSocial ME/CFS Research
  9. Andy
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    The Beighton Score as a measure of generalised joint hypermobility, 2021, Malek et al

    Abstract The Beighton Score (BS) is a set of manoeuvres in a nine-point scoring system, used as the standard method of assessment for Generalised...
    Thread by: Andy, Mar 21, 2021, 0 replies, in forum: Fibromyalgia and Connective Tissue Disorders
  10. Hutan
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    Fatigue - concepts for physiotherapy management and measurement, 2007, O'Connell and Stokes

    An old paper, one that I found when I was looking for papers related to physiotherapy....
    Thread by: Hutan, Feb 22, 2021, 3 replies, in forum: PsychoSocial ME/CFS Research
  11. Karen Kirke
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    Measuring improvement and deterioration in ME/CFS (2020) Kirke

    I have had a letter published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine entitled ‘Measuring improvement and deterioration in myalgic...
    Thread by: Karen Kirke, Dec 15, 2020, 19 replies, in forum: PsychoSocial ME/CFS Research
  12. rvallee
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    Measurement Schmeasurement: Questionable Measurement Practices and How to Avoid Them

    In this article, we define questionable measurement practices (QMPs) as decisions researchers make that raise doubts about the validity of the...
    Thread by: rvallee, Dec 10, 2020, 3 replies, in forum: Other Health News and Research
  13. Sly Saint
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    Systematic Review of Primary Outcome Measurements for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) in RCTs: 2020, Do-Young Kim et al

    Systematic Review of Primary Outcome Measurements for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME) in Randomized Controlled Trials...
    Thread by: Sly Saint, Oct 28, 2020, 3 replies, in forum: BioMedical ME/CFS Research
  14. Mij
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    Smartphone Dongle for Cancer Biomarker Measurement

    Researchers at McMaster and Brock universities in Canada have developed a hand-held device that can provide rapid measurements of cancer...
    Thread by: Mij, Oct 20, 2020, 0 replies, in forum: Other Health News and Research
  15. Andy
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    WHO Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 (WHODAS 2.0)

    WHODAS 2.0 is: A generic assessment instrument for health and disability A tool to produce standardized disability levels and profiles Applicable...
    Thread by: Andy, Oct 11, 2020, 13 replies, in forum: Other Health News and Research
  16. Ravn
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    Defining and Measuring Post-Exertional Malaise - a discussion

    Moderator note: This post has been copied and following posts moved from this thread: Epidemiological and clinical factors associated with...
    Thread by: Ravn, Jul 2, 2020, 79 replies, in forum: Diagnostic Guidelines
  17. Andy
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    A rating scale for fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome (the FibroFatigue scale), 2002, Zachrisson et al

    Saw this used recently in a study unrelated to ME and thought a thread about the scale might be useful. Objective: To construct an observer's...
    Thread by: Andy, Jun 20, 2020, 9 replies, in forum: PsychoSocial ME/CFS Research
  18. Sly Saint
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    Cognitive behavioural responses to envy: development of a new measure - Oct 2019 Chalder et al

    Abstract Background: Envy is depicted as motivating destructive desires and actions intended to spoil or destroy that which is envied. Aim: To...
    Thread by: Sly Saint, Nov 7, 2019, 12 replies, in forum: Other Health News and Research
  19. Andy
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    Development of a Scale to Measure an Unemployment Syndrome: Items Generation and Content Validity, 2019, Bocchino et al

    Definitely not a recommendation. PURPOSE To develop a scale for a group of symptoms based on the unemployment syndrome. METHODS The development...
    Thread by: Andy, Nov 2, 2019, 11 replies, in forum: Other Health News and Research
  20. Simone
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    Scales which measure disease severity

    I’m after some information about scales which measure severity of disease in ME/CFS, in terms of functional impairment (mild vs severe). There...
    Thread by: Simone, Sep 27, 2019, 15 replies, in forum: Diagnostic Guidelines
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