Wilshire, Courtney, etc. article reviewed in NEJM Depression/Anxiety Watch

There is a review of the paper found here: https://bmcpsychology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40359-018-0218-3

in the New England Journal of Medicine Watch Depression/Anxiety May 4, 2018 here: https://www.jwatch.org/na46472/2018...query=topic_depression&jwd=000012289158&jspc=

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In the newsletter it says

"Chronic Fatigue Treatment Redux: Questioning the Efficacy of CBT and Graded Exercise
[SUMMARY AND COMMENT]

Peter Roy-Byrne, MD reviewing Wilshire CE et al. BMC Psychol 2018 Mar 22.

Researchers reanalyzing data from a landmark study claim that the effects from cognitive-behavioral therapy and graded exercise were modest and weak."

This may not seem like much, but there has been almost no coverage relating to ME/CFS for the many years that I have received the free newsletter.

 

There was a discussion of this a while back in this thread, but I could only find it via google: https://www.s4me.info/threads/rethi...trial-of-graded-exercise-and-cbt.3114/page-11