ME/CFS Science @mecfsscience.org · 24d

1) 🇩🇪 There's a new randomised trial of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for Long Covid, from the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany. It claims that CBT lowered fatigue but it has the usual fatal limitations that make the results unreliable.

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ME/CFS Science · 24d

2) First major error: there was no control intervention. The control group was simply put on a waiting list to receive CBT for 16 weeks. This creates an enormous bias so that the results are likely distorted by expectancy and placebo effects.