Research abstract
Background and Objectives:
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is a severe, debilitating disorder. Permanent chronic fatigue that affects the daily routine activities at least for six months and 4 of the 8 patients reported symptoms associated with this disorder (problems of memory / concentration, restless sleep, joint pain, swollen lymph nodes, muscle pain, headache, sore throat, weakness due to work) and the absence of any underlying disease is the another sign of this disorder.
One of the important things that is noticeable about the syndrome, is causing physical and mental disabilities in the person that will lead to approximately 50% reduction in his job performance.
Methods:
This study has been conducted through self-reported questionnaire and field and library studies. so the desired randomly set of 78 nurses have been selected to answer the two demographic information and symptoms questionnaires CFS (DSQ. revised) which it’s reliability and validity has been verified. These questionnaires have been adjusted to the patient’s preliminary data record and their symptoms.
In the second stage, each individual job performance questionnaire was completed by department head.
Results:
The information obtained from the chronic fatigue syndrome questionnaire shows 14.1% prevalence of CFS. In discussing the relationship between CFS and indicators of job performance, it was cleared that people with the syndrome has lower job performance than those are healthy.
Conclusions:
In many similar studies, the effects of CFS on overall job performance in subjects were discussed and in most cases have been verified. The only differences are in subdivisions of job performance which are considered in this research
Conclusions from the full text:
Based on studies done so far, we can conclude that the study of the effective factors (including CFS) on the nurses’ job performance and even other critical jobs is very necessary especially in those which job performance, how to interact with job, people involved, organizations and the community is very important.
Chronic fatigue syndrome has a considerable impact on job performance, to the extent that many studies has discerned that the loss rate in performance for affected people is 50 % compared to healthy people. This can be due to the factor which is the main reason for this disorder – chronic fatigue – that can effect on the performance indicators from the various aspects. For example, the intensity of the fatigue can affect their accuracy or ability to acquire new skills and training existing skills.
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome prevalence and its relation to job performance among nurses, by Moshen Haddadi et al in Universal Journal of Public Health 3(1): 1 -5, 2015
