{"id":12235,"date":"2017-03-29T06:20:17","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T06:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=12235"},"modified":"2017-03-29T06:20:17","modified_gmt":"2017-03-29T06:20:17","slug":"patterns-of-control-beliefs-in-cfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/patterns-of-control-beliefs-in-cfs\/","title":{"rendered":"Patterns of control beliefs in CFS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Research abstract:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Pa<a href=\"https:\/\/bmcpsychology.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s40359-017-0174-3\" target=\"_blank\">tterns of control beliefs in chronic fatigue syndrome: results of a population-based survey<\/a>, by Johanna M. Doerr, Daniela S. Jopp, Michael Chajewski, Urs M. Nater <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">in<\/span>\u00a0<em>BMC Psychology<\/em> (open access), 6 March 2017<\/p>\n<p>BACKGROUND:\u00a0\u00a0 Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) represents a unique clinical challenge for patients and health care providers due to unclear etiology and lack of specific treatment. Characteristic patterns of behavior and cognitions might be related to how CFS patients respond to management strategies.<\/p>\n<p>METHODS:\u00a0\u00a0 This study investigates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macses.ucsf.edu\/research\/psychosocial\/control.php#definition\" target=\"_blank\">control beliefs<\/a> in a population-based sample of 113 CFS patients, 264 individuals with insufficient symptoms or fatigue for CFS diagnosis (ISF), and 124 well individuals.<\/p>\n<p>RESULTS:\u00a0\u00a0 Controlling for personality and coping, individuals with low confidence in their problem-solving capacity were almost 8 times more likely to be classified as ISF and 5 times more likely to be classified as CFS compared to being classified as well. However there was a wide distribution within groups and individuals with \u201clow confidence\u201d scores were found in 31.7% of Well individuals. Individuals with low levels of anxiety and who were more outgoing were less likely to be classified as ISF or CFS.<\/p>\n<p>CONCLUSIONS:\u00a0\u00a0 These findings suggest that fostering control beliefs could be an important focus for developing behavioral management strategies in CFS and other chronic conditions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research abstract: Patterns of control beliefs in chronic fatigue syndrome: results of a population-based survey, by Johanna M. Doerr, Daniela S. Jopp, Michael Chajewski, Urs M. Nater in\u00a0BMC Psychology (open access), 6 March 2017 BACKGROUND:\u00a0\u00a0 Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) represents &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/patterns-of-control-beliefs-in-cfs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3623,3625,3624,3626,3627],"class_list":["post-12235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-control-beliefs","tag-daniela-s-jopp","tag-johanna-m-doerr","tag-michael-chajewski","tag-urs-m-nater"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-3bl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12235"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12407,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12235\/revisions\/12407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}