2013
DOI: 10.1007/s00431-013-2234-x
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Improvement rates in adolescent patients with chronic fatigue syndrome after receiving cognitive behavioural therapy

Abstract: Werker et al. [7] claim that several randomised controlled trials have demonstrated that cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) resulted in improvement and 'recovery' in 60-70 % of adolescent patients with chronic fatigue syndrome when assessed at 6 months [3,4,6], with 'comparable results at 2-3-year follow-up' [2,5]. However, I believe further data from the cited research studies would have been helpful to put the results in their full context.The open-label FITNET trial [4,5] did indeed report a 63 % 'recovery… Show more

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“…PVFS is inevitably generated by specific events-conditions that occur after viral infections, including an excessive immune response, neurological dysfunction, neuro-endocrine system alterations, imbalance in the gut microbiota, and an autoimmune response [7] . Due to its complicated and indefinite pathogenesis, effective and economical therapeutic strategies against PVFS in recovered COVID-19 patients are deficient and require urgent development [8] .…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…PVFS is inevitably generated by specific events-conditions that occur after viral infections, including an excessive immune response, neurological dysfunction, neuro-endocrine system alterations, imbalance in the gut microbiota, and an autoimmune response [7] . Due to its complicated and indefinite pathogenesis, effective and economical therapeutic strategies against PVFS in recovered COVID-19 patients are deficient and require urgent development [8] .…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%