Tag Archives: self management
CFS/ME in adolescents: Practical guidance & management challenges
Practical guidance and management challenges of ME/CFS in adolescents Australian paediatrician Dr Katherine Rowe has written a paper for practitioners, based on her own experience, which reviews the current understanding of ME/CFS and highlights effective management strategies for adolescents. As … Continue reading
Paediatric patients with ME/CFS value understanding & help to move on with their lives
Paediatric patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome value understanding and help to move on with their lives, by Katherine Rowe in Acta Paediatrica, First published: 18 December 2019 [https://doi.org/10.1111/apa.15054] Abstract: Aim: The aim of this study was to document … Continue reading
Patient perspectives on self-management technologies for CFS
Patient perspectives on self-management technologies for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, by Tabby Davies, Simon Jones, Ryan Kelly in CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings (CHI 2019), May 4–9, 2019, Glasgow, Scotland UK, 13 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605. 3300452 Research abstract: … Continue reading
Initiating care of a patient with ME/CFS
Initiating care of a patient with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), by Charles W. Lapp in Front. Pediatr., [Published 23 January 2019] Article abstract: This paper introduces the primary care physician to the unique and challenging aspects of initially … Continue reading
Self-management helpful for idiopathic chronic fatigue
Research abstract: OBJECTIVE: To determine the efficacy of a cognitive-behavioral intervention for patients meeting U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) criteria for idiopathic chronic fatigue (ICF). ICF is thought to be a less severe disorder than chronic fatigue … Continue reading
Activity pacing (APT) self management approach for CFS
Research abstract: OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an activity pacing self-management (APSM) intervention in improving performance of daily life activities in women with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). METHOD: A total of 33 women … Continue reading
Patients with a chronic condition need support to self-manage
Research review: Background: Receiving adequate support seems to be crucial to the success of self-management. Although different empirical studies separately examined patients’ preferences for self-management support (SMS), an overview is lacking. Objective: The aim of this qualitative review was to … Continue reading
A fatigue self-management approach could be cost effective
Research abstract Background Fatigue is a common yet difficult to treat condition in primary care. The objective of this study is to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of a brief cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) based fatigue self-management (FSM) intervention as compared to … Continue reading
Long term prognosis study of patients with CFS
Research abstract Objective: To examine the effect of early clinical and demographic factors on occupational outcome, return to work or awarded permanent disability pension in young patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Design: Longitudinal cohort study. Intervention: A written self-management … Continue reading
Self-management can improve fatigue
Research abstract Objective: To assess the efficacy of brief fatigue self-management (FSM) for medically unexplained chronic fatigue (UCF) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) in primary care. Methods: A randomized controlled design was used wherein 111 patients with UCF or CFS … Continue reading