Leonard Jason: Special Issue: Operationalizing Criteria for ME, ME/CFS and CFS Case Definitions.

[Bob]

Lenny Jason has been busy! A special issue of the Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community has been published that contains only work by Leonard Jason's team at DePaul University. It contains seven separate papers.

Special Issue: Operationalizing Criteria for ME, ME/CFS and CFS Case Definitions.
Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community
13 Jan 2015
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wpic20/43/1

 

[Bob]

These are the individual papers:

An Overview of Operationalizing Criteria for ME, ME/CFS, and CFS Case Definitions.
Jason LA, So S, Evans M, Brown A, Sunnquist M, Im Y, Schafer C.
13 Jan 2015
J Prev Interv Community. 43:1-4.
doi: 10.1080/10852352.2014.973237.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10852352.2014.973237

Measuring substantial reductions in activity.
Schafer C, Evans M, Jason LA, So S, Brown A.
13 Jan 2015
J Prev Interv Community. 43:5-19.
doi: 10.1080/10852352.2014.973242.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10852352.2014.973242

Problems in defining post-exertional malaise.
Jason LA, Evans M, So S, Scott J, Brown A.
13 Jan 2015
J Prev Interv Community. 43:20-31.
doi: 10.1080/10852352.2014.973239.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10852352.2014.973239

Are stamina and fatigue polar opposites? A case study.
So S, Evans M, Jason LA, Brown A.
13 Jan 2015
J Prev Interv Community. 43:32-41.
doi: 10.1080/10852352.2014.973235.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10852352.2014.973235

Complications in operationalizing lifelong fatigue as an exclusionary criterion.
Sunnquist M, Jason LA, Brown A, Evans M, Berman A.
13 Jan 2015
J Prev Interv Community. 43:42-53.
doi: 10.1080/10852352.2014.973238.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10852352.2014.973238

An Investigation of Symptoms Predating CFS Onset.
Evans M, Barry M, Im Y, Brown A, Jason LA.
13 Jan 2015
J Prev Interv Community. 43:54-61.
doi: 10.1080/10852352.2014.973240.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10852352.2014.973240

Chronic fatigue syndrome versus sudden onset myalgic encephalomyelitis.
Jason LA, Evans M, Brown A, Sunnquist M, Newton JL.
13 Jan 2015
J Prev Interv Community. 43:62-77.
doi: 10.1080/10852352.2014.973233.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10852352.2014.973233

 

[Bob]

There's a special Phoenix Rising prize* for the first person to read them all, and to provide a succinct summary!

* Actually, there isn't really a prize. But you will get lots of gratitude.

 

[Sasha]

Interesting that he's teamed up with Julia Newton in that last one.

 

[Valentijn]

* Actually, there isn't really a prize.

Sure there is.

We're calling it "The Bob"

 

[Bob]

Sure there is.

We're calling it "The Bob"

Lucky prize winners!

 

[SOC]

Sure there is.

We're calling it "The Bob"

The Bob. Given with much gratitude to whoever manages to read and summarize long and important papers. It comes with and , but sadly no or .

 

[ahmo]

can't access the papers w/o a registration from institution...

 

[Seven7]

pay wall? $40

 

[Bob]

can't access the papers w/o a registration from institution...

Oh, that's a shame; for some reason I had assumed they were open-access. (I'd only looked at the abstracts.)

 

[Bob]

Good news.
All of these papers have been made open access (free to view & download) until April 30, 2015.
Download them while they're available. There are seven in total.
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wpic20/43/1

 

[MeSci]

I don't have time (or brainpower!) to read them properly, but am a bit puzzled by the repeated use of the word 'fatigue' as apparently-synonymous with ME/CFS in at least some papers, and also the omission of gut dysfunction in 'An Investigation of Symptoms Predating CFS Onset' (apart from 'abdomen pain') (tabulated in Table 1 here).

 

[alex3619]

Actually, there isn't really a prize. But you will get lots of gratitude.

Which is a pretty grand prize if you ask me.