Something has occurred to me. I'm not sure whether anyone has pointed it out. If so, apologies, I'm fast losing track of everything in here.
If the Usual care group are doing so badly compared with the FITNET group, and most of them had clinic based CBT, GET etc, then this is a damning critique of the dire results from these clinics and they should all be closed down immediately.
By contrast, allowing the kids to rest at home and not need to turn up and be harangued at a clinic every week, instead doing a bit of on-line stuff that's probably much less demanding, they improve faster.
Add this to my previous post, showing how useless the British fatigue clinics are, and there's a hugely strong case for closing the lot.
Given NHS funding cuts, I can see that happening anyway, with 'fatigue' coming low on the list of mental health funding priorities, and I predict the'll all be closed within a couple of years.
Now all we have to do is get FITNET abandoned too, and give GP's good guidelines on proper diagnosis and pacing....