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http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1359105317707215?journalCode=hpqaCognitive behaviour therapy and objective assessments in chronic fatigue syndrome
Graham McPhee
First Published June 19, 2017
Abstract
Most evaluations of cognitive behavioural therapy to treat people with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis rely exclusively on subjective self-report outcomes to evaluate whether treatment is effective. Few studies have used measures appropriate to assessing whether cognitive behavioural therapy changes in more objective measures. A review of studies incorporating objective measures suggests that there is a lack of evidence that cognitive behavioural therapy produces any improvement in a patient’s physical capabilities or other objective measures such as return to work. Future studies of chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis should include some objective assessments as primary outcomes. If this is to include activity monitors, we first need a sound baseline dataset.
Paywall at this moment in time but I've seen it said that this will be changed to open access, as with all the recent commentaries.