{"id":21093,"date":"2019-05-16T06:54:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T06:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=21093"},"modified":"2019-05-16T06:55:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T06:55:39","slug":"assessment-of-the-scientific-rigour-of-randomized-controlled-trials-on-the-effectiveness-of-cognitive-behavioural-therapy-graded-exercise-therapy-for-patients-with-me-cfs-a-systematic-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/assessment-of-the-scientific-rigour-of-randomized-controlled-trials-on-the-effectiveness-of-cognitive-behavioural-therapy-graded-exercise-therapy-for-patients-with-me-cfs-a-systematic-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessment of the scientific rigour of randomized controlled trials on the effectiveness of cognitive behavioural therapy &#038; graded exercise therapy for patients with ME\/CFS: a systematic review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1177\/1359105319847261?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assessment of the scientific rigour of randomized controlled trials on the effectiveness of cognitive behavioural therapy and graded exercise therapy for patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis\/chronic fatigue syndrome<\/a>: A systematic review, by\u00a0SA Ahmed, JC Mewes, HJM Vrijhoef <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">in<\/span> <em>Journal of Health Psychology<\/em> [First Published May 10, 2019] https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/1359105319847261<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review article abstract:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/2019\/05\/assessment-of-the-scientific-rigour-of-randomized-controlled-trials-on-the-effectiveness-of-cognitive-behavioural-therapy-graded-exercise-therapy-for-patients-with-me-cfs-a-systematic-review\/cbt-get-papers\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21114\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-21114 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/CBT-GET-papers.png?resize=416%2C923&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"416\" height=\"923\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/CBT-GET-papers.png?w=416&amp;ssl=1 416w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/CBT-GET-papers.png?resize=68%2C150&amp;ssl=1 68w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/CBT-GET-papers.png?resize=135%2C300&amp;ssl=1 135w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 416px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 416\/923;\" \/><\/a>Cognitive behavioural therapy and graded exercise therapy have been promoted as effective treatments for patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis\/chronic fatigue syndrome. However, criticism on the scientific rigour of these studies has been raised.<\/p>\n<p>This review assessed the methodological quality of studies on the effectiveness of cognitive behavioural therapy and graded exercise therapy.<\/p>\n<p>The methodological quality of the 18 included studies was found to be relatively low, as bias was prominently found, affecting the main outcome measures of the studies (fatigue, physical functioning and functional impairment\/status).<\/p>\n<p>Future research should focus on including more objective outcome measures in a well-defined patient population.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sci-hub.tw\/https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/1359105319847261\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read full paper<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assessment of the scientific rigour of randomized controlled trials on the effectiveness of cognitive behavioural therapy and graded exercise therapy for patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis\/chronic fatigue syndrome: A systematic review, by\u00a0SA Ahmed, JC Mewes, HJM Vrijhoef in Journal of Health &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/assessment-of-the-scientific-rigour-of-randomized-controlled-trials-on-the-effectiveness-of-cognitive-behavioural-therapy-graded-exercise-therapy-for-patients-with-me-cfs-a-systematic-review\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[11,426,10,481,5035,5034,310,5033],"class_list":["post-21093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-cbt","tag-cognitive-behavioural-therapy","tag-get","tag-graded-exercise-therapy","tag-hjm-vrijhoef","tag-jc-mewes","tag-pace-trial","tag-sa-ahmed"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-5ud","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21093","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=21093"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21116,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21093\/revisions\/21116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}