psychosocial

Psychosocial Nursing Diagnoses of Individuals With Myalgic Encephalomyelitis-Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A Descriptive Study Cristina Oter-Quintana, Almudena Alameda-Cuesta, Pedro Ruymán Brito-Brito, Ana Isabel Parro-Moreno, María Teresa Alcolea-Cosín, Teresa González-Gil, Valentín...

Full title: Assessment of psychosocial aspects in adults in post-COVID-19 condition: the EURONET-SOMA recommendations on core outcome domains for clinical and research use Stefan Salzmann, Lars de Vroege, Petra Engelmann, Per Fink, Susanne Fischer, Stephan Frisch, Lise Kirstine Gormsen...

Impact of sex and gender on post-COVID-19 syndrome, Switzerland, 2020 Caroline E Gebhard; Claudia Sütsch; Pimrapat Gebert; Bianca Gysi; Susan Bengs; Atanas Todorov; Manja Deforth; Philipp K Buehler; Alexander Meisel; Reto A Schuepbach; Annelies S Zinkernagel; Silvio D Brugger; Claudio Acevedo...

Incidence of long COVID and associated psychosocial characteristics in a large U.S. city Tsai, Jack; Grace, Abigail; Espinoza, Rita; Kurian, Anita Purpose Persistent residual effects from Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) have been observed with varying definitions of “Long COVID” and little...

Abstract Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders (FGID) are Disorders of Gut-Brain Interaction (DGBI) recognized by a variety of symptoms caused by abnormalities within gastrointestinal (GI) motility, visceral hypersensitivity, altered mucosal and immune function, altered gut microbiota, and...

This is a study from Aarhus, Denmark recently published as a paywalled Letter to the Editor in the journal Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic. Aarhus University has written a press release about the study. Aarhus is by the way also where Per Fink is located and the epicentre of the Danish...

Ashok Gupta is citing this study as 'proof' that his programme is a cure for ME/CFS. Given that he is now actively targeting Covid LongHaulers, I thought it best to bring this to the attention of S4ME's resident experts. According to the comments on this youtube video, there are allegedly "3...

https://www.mdpi.com/1010-660X/57/1/43/htm

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(20)30414-4/fulltext sci-hub.se/10.1016/S2215-0366(20)30414-4 ("develop specific standards about the type and quantity of evidence required" imo quality needs to be in there; eg getting non-psych hps to review the evidence)

https://youtu.be/fjWjb41bEOI

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32357125/

New review & meta-analysis of 56 RCTs in JAMA Psychiatry showing that psychotherapy in general, and especially CBT, reduces inflammation & improves ImmuneSystem function! Online article: https://t.co/xlS3n9OoLg PDF: https://t.co/xtOjKbcJEv Doesn't the placebo response also temporarily...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21641846.2020.1757809

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11884-019-00571-2?wt_mc=Internal.Event.1.SEM.ArticleAuthorOnlineFirst&utm_source=ArticleAuthorContributingOnlineFirst&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AA_en_06082018&ArticleAuthorContributingOnlineFirst_20200201

from Introduction interesting, a nice twist perhaps(?) But will anyone use it? Cochrane seem to be going in the opposite direction. full paper here https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/bmjopen/9/2/e024622.full.pdf

https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2019/02/08/hilde-t-myrhaug-and-tone-hansen-co-producing-a-systematic-review-with-patients/ I thought that this was of interest for showing how patients can end up pushing for a more 'positive' presentation of results if they've had a positive experience with a...

see me-pedia page: https://www.me-pedia.org/wiki/Intimidation_of_PACE_critics These are not directly related to PACE but still applicable (IMO) Letter from Countess Mar to Professor Simon Wessely 4th December 2012 please cut and paste your relevant posts here.

I'm currently working my way through this tome, so thought I'd start a thread on it so that anyone else who has read it (and those who haven't) can join in and discuss it here. The symposium was held at the Ciba Foundation, London, 12-14th of May in 1992. The publisher's description of the...

https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2018/05/21/missing-the-psychosocial-diagnosis-a-form-of-institutionalised-malpractice/ This seems like an attempt to claim more patients for MUS/IAPT programs. Ironically, I was just reading something where the patient was dismissed as having non-cardiac chest pain...

Critical Analysis of Psychological Illness Explanations The only certainty Is uncertainty: Doctors should admit when they don't have an answer Frances, A 2013 link to article This article argues that medical professionals are overconfident about their diagnostic abilities, and fail to...