Exercise and therapy 'useful for chronic fatigue syndrome'
Conclusion
This study gives us the long-term results of the only randomised controlled trial to directly compare four commonly used treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome. It is encouraging that people who seemed to benefit from CBT and GET in the first year of the study were still seeing those benefits after another year.
The finding that people who had the other types of treatment – specialist medical care alone or with APT – improved during the year after the study had finished is interesting and difficult to interpret.
It could simply be the case that these people got better over time, although previous studie...
Source: NHS News Feed - October 28, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Lifestyle/exercise Mental health Neurology Medical practice Source Type: news
Treatments offer hope for chronic fatigue syndrome
Two treatments for chronic fatigue syndrome have long term benefits for people affected by chronic fatigue syndrome. The team was following up patients who took part in a study published in 2011. In that study they looked at four potential treatments for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and found that cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and graded exercise therapy (GET) achieved better outcomes than standard medical care (SMC) and adaptive pacing therapy (APT) at one year. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - October 28, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Delivering an Optimised Behavioural Intervention (OBI) to people with low back pain with high psychological risk; results and lessons learnt from a feasibility randomised controlled trial of Contextual Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CCBT) vs. Physiotherapy - Pincus T, Anwar S, McCracken LM, McGregor A, Graham L, Collinson M, McBeth J, Watson P, Morley S, Henderson J, Farrin AJ.
BACKGROUND: Low Back Pain (LBP) remains a common and costly problem. Psychological obstacles to recovery have been identified, but psychological and behavioural interventions have produced only moderate improvements. Reviews of trials have suggested that t... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - October 11, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Clients' experiences of returning to the trauma site during PTSD treatment: an exploratory study - Murray H, Merritt C, Grey N.
BACKGROUND: Visits to the location of the trauma are often included in trauma-focused cognitive behavioural therapy (TF-CBT) for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but no research to date has explored how service users experience these visits, or wheth... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - August 1, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Cognitive-behavioural suicide prevention for male prisoners: a pilot randomized controlled trial - Pratt D, Tarrier N, Dunn G, Awenat Y, Shaw J, Ulph F, Gooding P.
This study investigated the feasibility of ... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))
Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated) - July 18, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Program and Other Evaluations, Effectiveness Studies Source Type: news
