GETSET trial

The GETSET trial (short for Graded Exercise Therapy Guided Self-Help Trial for Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) was a trial investigating the effectiveness of "guided graded exercise self-help" in patients with CFS/ME. The protocol was published in June 2016. . The results were published in June 2017.

Funding
The trial was funded in full by the National Institute for Health Research's Research for Patient Benefit programme.

Protocol
The protocol of the trial was published in JMIR Research Protocols in June 2016.

Criticism

 * Spoonseekerdotcom has criticised the GETSET trial on several points.

Articles

 * 2017, Trial by Error, Continued: More on Graded Exercise from Peter White and The Lancet
 * 2017, Yet another publication with misleading conclusions from PACE-land
 * 2017, Expert reaction to study on guided self-help graded exercise therapy as a treatment for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) (Science Media Centre)
 * 2017, Exercise can help chronic fatigue syndrome, study shows
 * 2017, Guided graded exercise self-help as a treatment of fatigue in chronic fatigue syndrome (Daniel Claw)
 * 2017, Guided self-help approach to graded exercise programme is safe and may reduce fatigue for patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (Queen Mary University of London)
 * 2017, On Your Marks GETSET: Don’t Go – Major Graded Exercise ME/CFS Trial Underwhelms (Again) (Health Rising)