{"id":13496,"date":"2017-06-27T05:40:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T05:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=13496"},"modified":"2017-06-27T05:40:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T05:40:30","slug":"guided-self-help-for-patients-with-cfs-prior-to-starting-cbt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/guided-self-help-for-patients-with-cfs-prior-to-starting-cbt\/","title":{"rendered":"Guided self-help for patients with CFS prior to starting CBT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Research abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Guided self-help for patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome prior\u00a0to starting Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: A cohort study<\/a>, by\u00a0Sheila Ali, Kimberley Goldsmith, Mary Burgess, Trudie Chalder in<\/span> Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy<\/em> 5 May 2017 [Preprint]<\/p>\n

Background:
\nPrevious research suggests that minimal interventions such as self-help\u00a0guidance can improve outcomes in patients with fatigue or chronic\u00a0fatigue syndrome (CFS).<\/p>\n

Aims:
\nThe aim of the current study was to investigate whether self-help\u00a0guidance could improve physical functioning, social adjustment and\u00a0fatigue in a group of patients with CFS who were awaiting CBT at a\u00a0clinic in secondary care.<\/p>\n

Method:
\nPatients completed questionnaires at their initial assessment\u00a0(baseline), immediately\u00a0before beginning CBT (pre-treatment), and after\u00a0their last session of CBT (end of treatment). The primary outcome was\u00a0physical functioning, and the secondary outcomes were social adjustment\u00a0and fatigue. Multi-level linear models were used to assess change over\u00a0time after adjustment for gender and age.<\/p>\n

Results:
\nMulti-level models revealed that from baseline to pre-treatment,\u00a0patients showed statistically significant improvements in physical\u00a0functioning, but there were no statistically significant improvements in\u00a0fatigue or social adjustment. However, all the primary and secondary\u00a0outcomes showed statistically significant changes after CBT.<\/p>\n

Conclusions:
\nThe findings of this study indicate that self-help guidance may be\u00a0beneficial for patients with CFS who are awaiting CBT treatment or those\u00a0who are unable to access specialist treatment in their local area.<\/p>\n

See a discussion<\/strong> at Phoenix rising<\/a> which raises questions about the methodology in this study.<\/p>\n

NB The full paper is behind a firewall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Research abstract: Guided self-help for patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome prior\u00a0to starting Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: A cohort study, by\u00a0Sheila Ali, Kimberley Goldsmith, Mary Burgess, Trudie Chalder in Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy 5 May 2017 [Preprint] Background: Previous research suggests that … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3854,3855,3407,3853,3646],"class_list":["post-13496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-kimberley-goldsmith","tag-mary-burgess","tag-prof-trudie-chalder","tag-self-help","tag-sheila-ali"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-3vG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13496"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13552,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13496\/revisions\/13552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}