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Analysis of differences between therapists in the effects on outcome

This analysis was repeated for fatigue (0123 scoring method) and physical functioning, as shown in Table 2. The results are consistent. Patients in receipt of PR fare significantly better than patients in receipt of SL at 20 weeks, but the difference is no longer significant at the 70-week outcome. In the main trial results [4], randomization to PR only had a significant effect on the Chalder fatigue scale at 20 weeks when the fatigue scale was scored in 0011. Readers should note that the analysis reported in this paper compares two therapies, delivered by different therapists, in contrast to the main trial results [4], which compared each therapy to GP treatment as usual. Therapist effects are not significant. Simple one-way analysis of variance models provided estimates of the proportion of variance in outcomes which is associated with the therapist (intra-class correlations, see Table 3). For fatigue scored 0123 at 70 weeks, intraclass correlations were 0.10 and -0.10 for PR an
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