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Article History
Received: 22 February 2018
Accepted: 5 January 2019
First Online: 25 January 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: Trudie Chalder received ad hoc payments for conducting workshops on evidence-based treatments for persistent physical symptoms; grants from NIHR programme grants, HTA, RfPB, Guy's and St Thomas Charity, King's Challenge Fund, Muscular Dystrophy, Multiple Sclerosis Society. Personal financial interests: Trudie Chalder is the author of several self-help books on chronic fatigue and received royalties in the past. She received expenses and ad hoc payment for role as external examiner NUI Galway and Waterford Institute of Technology. She received expenses for keynote speeches at UK Society for Behavioural Medicine, BABCP Conferences (travel and accommodation). Mary Burgess receives royalties for the self-help book Overcoming chronic fatigue. Sheila Ali and Lucy Adamczyk declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures followed were in accordance with ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000. The study received ethical approval from the Psychiatry, Nursing and Midwifery sub-committee of King’s College London Research Ethics Committee. Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.
