New from Australia:
eLearning improves allied health professionals' knowledge & confidence to manage medically unexplained chronic fatigue states: A RCT
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022399923003197
This promoted CBT & GET as evidence-based. See https://anzctr.org.au/Trial/Registration/TrialReview.aspx?id=370222&isReview=true 😡
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"There is Level One evidence indicating that graded exercise therapy (GET) and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is currently the most effective means to manage CFS (for review see Larun et al, 2015; Prince et al, 2008). Despite GET and CBT being widely acknowledged as best-practice interventions for CFS, the great majority of patients in Australia are not receiving these appropriate evidence-based interventions." 😠
Disappointing to see discussion of GET and CBT. I see the primary investigator is a psychiatrist.
In their defence, the trial was granted ethical approval in 2016 and could well have been in development for a year or so before this. I suspect they regret choosing a topic that included GET/CBT to test their online teaching.
The recently published paper has switched to using the term Fatigue Syndromes rather than CFS. I've only read the abstract, but perhaps this shows some awareness about the change in views on GET/CBT?
