Simon Collin

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Dr Simon Michael Collin works for Public Health England and is attached to Bristol Medical School. Dr Collin publishes research about chronic fatigue syndrome, and frequently co-authors research with pediatrician Professor Esther Crawley.[1]

Research ethics investigation[edit | edit source]

Dr Collin was co-author or principle author on a number of ME/CFS publications with Esther Crawley which stated an exemption from research ethics approval using a reference to an apparently unrelated study of school absences. In 2019 the University of Bristol announced an investigation into this.

Notable studies[edit | edit source]

  • 2011, The impact of CFS/ME on employment and productivity in the UK: a cross-sectional study based on the CFS/ME national outcomes database[2] (Full text)
  • 2013, Treatment outcome in adults with chronic fatigue syndrome: a prospective study in England based on the CFS/ME National Outcomes Database[3] (Full text)
  • 2013, The feasibility and acceptability of conducting a trial of specialist medical care and the Lightning Process in children with chronic fatigue syndrome: feasibility randomized controlled trial (SMILE study)[4] (Full text)
  • 2014, G160(P) Case series of Pervasive Refusal Syndrome presenting Chronic Fatigue: avoiding the pitfall of a wrong diagnosis[5] (Full text)
  • 2015, Maternal and childhood psychological factors predict chronic disabling fatigue at age 13 years’. Journal of Adolescent Health[6] (Full text)
  • Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) symptom-based phenotypes in two clinical cohorts of adult patients in the UK and The Netherlands (Full text)
  • 2016, "It’s personal to me": A qualitative study of depression in young people with CFS/ME[7] (Full text)
  • 2017, Endogenous Pain Facilitation Rather Than Inhibition Differs Between People with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Multiple Sclerosis, and Controls: An Observational Study[8] (Full text)
  • 2017, Natural course of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis in adolescents[9] (Full text)
  • 2017, Trends in the incidence of chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia in the UK, 2001–2013: a Clinical Practice Research Datalink study[10] (Full Text)
  • 2018, Childhood sleep and adolescent chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS/ME): evidence of associations in a UK birth cohort[11] (Full Text)
  • 2018, Defining the minimally clinically important difference of the SF-36 physical function subscale for paediatric CFS/ME: triangulation using three different methods[12] (Full text)

Talks and interviews[edit | edit source]

Online presence[edit | edit source]

  • PubMed
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  • Website
  • YouTube

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Learn more[edit | edit source]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. Bristol, University of. "Dr Simon Collin - School of Social and Community Medicine". bristol.ac.uk. Retrieved February 16, 2019.
  2. Collin, Simon M; Crawley, Esther; May, Margaret T; Sterne, Jonathan AC; Hollingworth, William (December 2011). UK CFS/ME National Outcomes Database. "The impact of CFS/ME on employment and productivity in the UK: a cross-sectional study based on the CFS/ME national outcomes database". BMC Health Services Research. 11 (1). doi:10.1186/1472-6963-11-217. ISSN 1472-6963. PMC 3184626. PMID 21923897.
  3. Crawley, E.; Collin, S.M.; White, P.D.; Rimes, K.; Sterne, J.A.C.; May, M.T. (June 2013). "Treatment outcome in adults with chronic fatigue syndrome: a prospective study in England based on the CFS/ME National Outcomes Database". QJM: An International Journal of Medicine. 106 (6): 555–565. doi:10.1093/qjmed/hct061. ISSN 1460-2725. PMC 3665909. PMID 23538643.
  4. Crawley, Esther; Mills, Nicola; Beasant, Lucy; Johnson, Debbie; Collin, Simon M; Deans, Zuzana; White, Kate; Montgomery, Alan (2013). "The feasibility and acceptability of conducting a trial of specialist medical care and the Lightning Process in children with chronic fatigue syndrome: feasibility randomized controlled trial (SMILqE study)". Trials. 14 (415). doi:10.1186/1745-6215-14-415. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "SMILE, 2013" defined multiple times with different content
  5. Herberholz, N.; Collin, S.; McCowat, A.; Crawley, E. (April 1, 2014). "G160(P) Case series of Pervasive Refusal Syndrome presenting with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: avoiding the pitfall of a wrong diagnosis" (PDF). Archives of Disease in Childhood. 99 (Suppl 1): A70–A70. doi:10.1136/archdischild-2014-306237.168. ISSN 0003-9888. Clinicians should think about PRS in patients with refusal symptoms affecting, eating, social interaction, self-care, mobility and treatment. Patients have extremely high levels of fatigue and/or disability. Postexertional fatigue and disrupted sleep occur but patients are less likely to have characteristic symptoms of CFS/ME such as unrefreshing sleep. The diagnosis of PRS is important as the treatment is different
  6. Collin, Simon M.; Tilling, Kate; Joinson, Carol; Rimes, Katharine A.; Pearson, Rebecca M.; Hughes, Rachael A.; Sterne, Jonathan A.C.; Crawley, Esther (February 2015). "Maternal and Childhood Psychological Factors Predict Chronic Disabling Fatigue at Age 13 Years". Journal of Adolescent Health. 56 (2): 181–187. doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2014.09.002. ISSN 1054-139X.
  7. Taylor, Anna K; Loades, Maria; Brigden, Amberly LC; Collin, Simon M; Crawley, Esther (April 2017). "'It's personal to me': A qualitative study of depression in young people with CFS/ME". Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 22 (2): 326–340. doi:10.1177/1359104516672507. ISSN 1359-1045. PMC 5405821. PMID 27742756.
  8. Collin, Simon M.; Nijs, Jo; Meeus, Mira; Polli, Andrea; Willekens, Barbara; Ickmans, Kelly (May 2017). "Endogenous Pain Facilitation Rather Than Inhibition Differs Between People with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Multiple Sclerosis, and Controls: An Observational Study". Pain Physician. 20 (4): E489–E497. ISSN 2150-1149. PMID 28535557.
  9. Crawley, Esther; Heron, Jon; Sterne, Jonathan AC; Stansfeld, Stephen A.; Nuevo, Roberto; Tilling, Kate; Collin, Simon M.; Norris, Tom (June 1, 2017). "Natural course of chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis in adolescents". Archives of Disease in Childhood. 102 (6): 522–528. doi:10.1136/archdischild-2016-311198. ISSN 0003-9888. PMID 28104625.
  10. Collin, Simon M; Bakken, Inger J; Nazareth, Irwin; Crawley, Esther; White, Peter D (March 30, 2017). "Trends in the incidence of chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia in the UK, 2001–2013: a Clinical Practice Research Datalink study". Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 110 (6): 231–244. doi:10.1177/0141076817702530. ISSN 0141-0768. PMC 5499564. PMID 28358988.
  11. Collin, Simon M.; Norris, Tom; Gringras, Paul; Blair, Peter S.; Tilling, Kate; Crawley, Esther (June 2018). "Childhood sleep and adolescent chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS/ME): evidence of associations in a UK birth cohort". Sleep Medicine. 46: 26–36. doi:10.1016/j.sleep.2018.01.005. ISSN 1389-9457. PMC 5974860. PMID 29773208.
  12. Brigden, Amberly; Parslow, Roxanne M; Gaunt, Daisy; Collin, Simon M; Jones, Andy; Crawley, Esther (October 19, 2018). "Defining the minimally clinically important difference of the SF-36 physical function subscale for paediatric CFS/ME: triangulation using three different methods". Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. 16 (1). doi:10.1186/s12955-018-1028-2. ISSN 1477-7525. PMID 30340599.
  13. Katz, Ben Z; Collin, Simon M; Murphy, Gabrielle; Moss-Morris, Rona; Wyller, Vegard Bruun; Wensaas, Knut-Arne; Hautvast, Jeannine L.A.; Bleeker-Rovers, Chantal P; Vollmer-Conna, Uté; Buchwald, Dedra; Taylor, Renée; Little, Paul; Crawley, Esther; White, Peter D; Lloyd, Andrew (April 3, 2018). "The international collaborative on fatigue following infection (COFFI)". Fatigue: Biomedicine, Health & Behavior. 6 (2): 106–121. doi:10.1080/21641846.2018.1426086. ISSN 2164-1846. PMID 30666281.