Tag: PPS
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Tack and I Write to Psych Medicine; Struthers Writes to Medical Research Council
A recent study of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) for patients with “persistent physical symptoms” (PPS), a category alsocalled “medically unexplained symptoms,” reported null results for its primary outcome. These null results were not mentioned in the conclusion of the abstract, which instead focused on minimal reported benefits for a minority of secondary outcomes. This is…
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Null Outcomes Presented as Success in Yet Another CBT Trial from Prof Trudie Chalder
Trudie Chalder, a professor of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) at King’s College London, has recently published yet another high-profile paper: the main results for “efficacy” from a trial of CBT for patients with so-called “persistent physical symptoms” (PPS) in secondary care. As usual with this group of investigators, things haven’t turned out well. But despite…
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Some Thoughts on Long-Covid, ME/CFS and MUS
*October is crowdfunding month at Berkeley. I conduct this project as a senior fellow in public health and journalism and the university’s Center for Global Public Health. If you would like to support the project, here’s the place: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/22602 Among the troubling phenomena to emerge from the pandemic are the reports from so many Covid-19 patients…
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Professor Chalder’s PRINCE Has Arrived
*October is crowdfunding month at Berkeley. I conduct this project as a senior fellow in public health and journalism and the university’s Center for Global Public Health. If you would like to support the project, here’s the place: https://crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/22602 So here’s yet another paper with Professor Trudie Chalder of King’s College London as the senior author.…