Three principles/innate health: The efficacy of psycho-spiritual mental health education for people with CFS, 2020, El-Mokadem et al

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https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-69778-001

Citation
El-Mokadem, J. F. K., DiMarco, K., Kelley, T. M., & Duffield, L. (2020). Three principles/innate health: The efficacy of psycho-spiritual mental health education for people with chronic fatigue syndrome. Spirituality in Clinical Practice. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/scp0000232
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Abstract

We investigate the efficacy of a psycho-spiritual mental health education intervention known as Three Principles/Innate Health (3P/IH) for improving the psychological and physical health of people with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).

Twenty-two adults diagnosed with CFS were randomly assigned to experimental groups.

Participants in both groups completed the Chalder Fatigue Scale and the PROMIS fatigue, global health, anxiety, depression, sleep disturbance, and pain interference scales.

Compared with the waitlist control group, participants receiving 3P/IH reported a significant increase in psychological and physical wellbeing and a significant decrease in depression, anxiety, fatigue, and pain interference.

After receiving 3P/IH, waitlist control participants reported a significant increase in psychological and physical wellbeing and a significant decrease in anxiety, fatigue, and pain interference.

The significant improvements reported by participants in both experimental groups were maintained at follow-up.
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Yes but what about healing crystals? Which healing crystal will lower the CFQ the most? It is all of them? Basically you just throw healing crystals at people until they rate themselves as "better"? That would work. That's (very dramatic and cavernous voice) EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE.

Just goes to show how much a joke this whole paradigm is. When you make it easier for some quacks to push through their BS, you make it easier for all quacks to do the same.
 
I tried looking up 'Three Principles/Innate Health' but all I could glean was another: I know how the mind and the universe work bs, (junk that flourished in the 1970s).

Another pseudo-something for all the sheep in the world, the lost sheep who need a flock and to be fleeced by a guru who is just a midge smarter than they are; someone to tell them how to think and what to think.

It's oh so reassuring.
 
Twenty-two adults diagnosed with CFS were randomly assigned to experimental groups.
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I misread this as
Twenty-two adults randomly diagnosed with CFS were assigned to experimental groups.

My first reaction was :eek: and then I, well it's as about as good as the modified London criteria, if not the Oxford criteria.

Frankly, if I was somehow trapped into this kind of guff, I'd tell them pretty much anything they wanted to hear so it I could get away.

As for the long term followup - yeah, it was great, I'm doing fine. Anything to avoid any suggestion that I might need a top up session or two.

Honestly, where I grew up everyone went to a religious service on Saturday or Sunday. Most of us were of the same faith. I got a lot of stick when I decided it wasn't for me as a teen & it was the right decision for me (though I respect other people's faith & their right to practice it). I'd far rather go back to that than tolerate this guff.
 
It would be interesting to know all the COI's involved in his, whether declared, or not.
 
Trish said:
I think it may be the other way around. Relgious organisations getting involved in psychology. The journal seems to be overtly religious (or 'spiritual').
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So religions are trying to find more ways to brainwash the masses? That's very, VERY disturbing. As if there wasn't enough religious strife in the world as it is.
 
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