RCPCH conference 2019 abstract: Tea and cake: an opportunity for young people and their parents/guardians to eat cake and share ideas, Bashton et al

Typo also in this title @Trish, 2109?

Unless 2109 refers to something I don't know about.

 

What kind of cake? I need some evidence-based cake!!!!!

 

So it would seem that strongly advising ME patients against joining support groups was a bad idea. The positive comments are clearly aligned on the rare opportunity to socialize with peers and not related to any therapeutic effect. Forced social isolation is a bad idea, who knew?

As usual, take the recommendations from the psychosocial model and do the opposite for best results.

 

Are you saying the cake is a lie!?!

 

They will probably be unable to entice David Amess to attend, with an offer like that.

 

Didn't we already know that some people like to sit around eating cake whilst 'chatting', and that, because they like it, it may make them feel better, more positive?

Didn't we know this before we invented cake? Certainly before we invented psychologists.

I mean, really, people turned up, they didn't kill anyone important and apparently enjoyed themselves enough so as to come back, bringing someone else with them (possibly), so it's a good idea to arrange for more cake to be delivered?

This level of thinking is beyond me, even now it's impossible to think so slowly as to be able to understand why allegedly fully functional neurotypical adults don't know this sort of thing, why they feel the need to run a 'study' like this.

This isn't a study, it's a project, it's not aimed at helping people, it's aim is to get someone else to pay for the cake.

It's the only explanation that makes sense.

 

I see what you did there.

 

Probably not, this study was done in London. Now in Bristol it'd probably be a different matter.

 

I think the cake went over my head on this one.

 

Have these folks not heard of carbs and glycolysis?

 

A major drawback of this study is that it is not randomised.

I think at minimum subjects should have been randomised to Dundee, Battenburg, Schwarzforestetorte, and low fat carrot cake. There should also have been a control group with bread and jam and a combination group with both (but only allowed cake after bread and jam as my mother insisted).

I didn't actually know that people still ate cake. I rather assumed that the only people who did were visiting their mum (aged 97).

 

You must be lucky enough to get invites from like minded people and share mutual interest conversations rather than the duty bound summonsing to childrens birthday parties and someones boring wedding, stuck on a table with people you have been deliberately trying to avoid for years.

I have to admit to preferring funeral buffet food as it tends to be sandwich, pork pie, and scotch egg based spreads which no ones seems to do anymore in any other setting, preferring to impress with some latest Jamie Oliver fusion crap or some terrible tagine type crap with meat mixed with apricots etc.

Not that I don't like world cuisine but you cant get a curled up egg and crest mini sarny, mucky fat, or sausage rolls outside of a funeral buffet these days. I wonder why that is.

As for the cake, ill have an extra chicken leg for my dessert any day.

 

Maybe the food at funerals is supposed to speed along the reunion between living and recently departed?

 

Let us bring this thread back to where it belongs. If they serve Jaffa cakes, are they cakes or biscuits.

 

Blinding might be difficult, I mean it is obvious when you've been randomised to the crap carrot cake group.

Blasphemy!