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Challenging claims that fearful avoidance beliefs about activity in ME & CFS can be targeted with CBT/GET.
Cognitive-behavorial and graded exercise therapies for chronic fatigue (syndrome) are associated with lower levels of work/school attendance, by Frank N M Twisk in J Behav Med [Published online 28 March 2019] Psychological and demographic factors associated with fatigue and social … Continue reading
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Tagged CBT, children, cognitive behavioural therapy, fear avoidance, Frank NM Twisk, GET, graded exercise therapy, Lucy Adamczyk, Mary Burgess, Prof Trudie Chalder, Sheila Ali, young people
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CBT & GET are ‘unsuitable treatments or management approaches for ME/CFS’
The results of the Forward ME and Oxford Brookes University patient survey on CBT and GET in ME/CFS have been published. 2,274 people with ME/CFS of all ages responded to the online survey with their experiences of cognitive behavioural therapy and/or … Continue reading
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Tagged CBT, cognitive behavioural therapy, Forward ME Group, GET, graded exercise therapy, Oxford Brooks University, patient survey
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CBT & GET patient survey – ends 31 Jan 2019
CBT and GET Patient Survey Forward ME has launched a survey, having been asked by the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to gather evidence and experiences of Graded Exercise Therapy (GET) and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). NICE … Continue reading
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Tagged CBT, cognitive behavioural therapy, Forward ME Group, GET, graded exercise therapy, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, NICE guideline ME/CFS, survey
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Science journal to withdraw chronic fatigue review amid patient activist complaints
Exclusive: Science journal to withdraw chronic fatigue review amid patient activist complaints, by Kate Kelland in Science news blog, 17 October 2018 LONDON, Oct 17 (Reuters) – A respected science journal is to withdraw a much-cited review of evidence on an … Continue reading
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Tagged CBT, Cochrane review, cognitive behavioural therapy, GET, graded exercise therapy, Kate Kelland
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GET for ME/CFS is not effective & unsafe – re-analysis of a Cochrane review
Graded exercise therapy for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome is not effective and unsafe. Re-analysis of a Cochrane review, by Mark Vink & Alexandra Vink-Niese in Health Psychology Open, Vol 5, issue: 2 [First Published October 8, 2018] Review article abstract: … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandra Vink-Niese, Cochrane review, Dr Mark Vink, GET, graded exercise therapy, harms, PEM
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AfME apologises for its role in the PACE trial & clarifies its change of position
Action for M.E. statement on: The PACE trial and behavioural treatments for M.E. On 29th August 2018 Action for ME published a statement explaining the charity’s role in the PACE trial and apologising for their role in contributing to the … Continue reading
Checking our blind spots: current status of research evidence summaries in ME/CFS
Checking our blind spots: current status of research evidence summaries in ME/CFS, by Todd E Davenport, Staci R Stevens, J Mark VanNess, Jared Stevens, Christopher R Snell in British Journal of Sports Medicine, July 2018 Editorial: The evidence-based practice (EBP) … Continue reading
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Tagged biomedical research, CBT, Christopher R Snell, GET, Jared Steven, PACE trial, Prof Mark VanNess, Staci R Stevens, Todd E Davenport
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CFS treatment ‘should be withdrawn’
BBC newsbeat report, 8 May 2019: Chronic fatigue syndrome treatment ‘should be withdrawn’ A common treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome should be scrapped immediately, according to one of the UK’s leading experts in the illness. Dr Charles Shepherd says graded … Continue reading
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Forward ME Group writes to the Times: patients are ‘not simply deconditioned’
Times online letter, 22 March 2018: TREATMENT FOR PATIENTS WITH ME Sir, The article by Tom Whipple, (“Findings of £5m ME chronic fatigue study ‘worthless’,” Mar 22) highlights a long-standing problem. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice) … Continue reading
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Rethinking the treatment of CFS – a reanalysis of the PACE trial
Research abstract: Rethinking the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome—a reanalysis and evaluation of findings from a recent major trial of graded exercise and CBT by Carolyn E. Wilshire, Tom Kindlon, Robert Courtney, Alem Matthees, David Tuller, Keith Geraghty and Bruce … Continue reading
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Tagged Aleem Matthees, Carolyn Wilshire, CBT, cognitive behavioural therapy, David Tuller, Dr Keith Geraghty, GET, graded exercise therapy, PACE trial, Prof Bruce Levin, Robert Courtney, Tom Kindlon
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