Comment on: Cognitive behaviour therapy for the chronic fatigue syndrome: a randomized controlled trial. [BMJ. 1996]
EDITOR,-Michael Sharpe and colleagues’ study confirms that the best medical advice for patients with the chronic fatigue syndrome is not “nothing can be done” or that “the disease will burn itself out.”‘ The study produced improvement in 73% of the patients, which is comparable to the 80% improvement produced by my management techniques.2 3 Interestingly, my approach seems to be fundamentally different from that of Sharpe and colleagues.
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Source: Ho-Yen DO. Cognitive behaviour therapy for the chronic fatigue syndrome. Patients’ beliefs about their illness were probably not a major factor. BMJ. 1996 Apr 27;312(7038):1097-8. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8616430