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
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
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
