Guided graded exercise self-help plus specialist medical care versus specialist medical care alone for chronic fatigue syndrome (GETSET): a pragmatic randomised controlled trial

This paper presents independent research funded by the UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) under its Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) Programme (grant reference number PB-PG-0610-22060). The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the UK National Health Service (NHS), the NIHR, or the UK Department of Health. This study was also funded by the Sue Estermann Fund, a donor advised fund managed by The London Community Foundation. This study was supported by the UK Clinical Research Collaboration-registered King's Clinical Trials Unit at King's Health Partners, which is part funded by the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, King's College London, and the NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre. The members of our Trial Steering Committee were Christopher Williams (Chair), a patient charity representative, Alastair Miller, Rona Moss-Morris, and a patient representative. The members of our Data Monitoring and Ethics Committee were Astrid Fletcher (Chair), Charlotte Feinmann, and Irwin Nazareth. Hiroko Akagi and Vikki McKeever scrutinised our adverse event data. The physiotherapists were Jenny McClure and Emily Tims. We thank the referring clinicians at Barts Health NHS Trust, East London NHS Foundation Trust, and Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust: Julius Bourke, Maurice Clancy, Wendy Hedgecock, Elizabeth Jones, Maurice Murphy, Ewa Okon-Rocha, Areti Pavlidou, Kris Ray, and Elisabeth Wilmett