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European Journal of Pediatrics
Published in: European Journal of Pediatrics 5/2014

01-05-2014 | Correspondence

Improvement rates in adolescent patients with chronic fatigue syndrome after receiving cognitive behavioural therapy

Author: Robert Courtney

Published in: European Journal of Pediatrics | Issue 5/2014

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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]. …
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Metadata
Title
Improvement rates in adolescent patients with chronic fatigue syndrome after receiving cognitive behavioural therapy
Author
Robert Courtney
Publication date
01-05-2014
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
European Journal of Pediatrics / Issue 5/2014
Print ISSN: 0340-6199
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1076
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00431-013-2234-x

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