{"id":15899,"date":"2018-03-20T07:31:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T07:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=15899"},"modified":"2018-03-20T07:31:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T07:31:02","slug":"low-mood-poor-quality-of-life-high-symptom-impact-in-adolescents-attending-a-tertiary-service-for-cfs-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/low-mood-poor-quality-of-life-high-symptom-impact-in-adolescents-attending-a-tertiary-service-for-cfs-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Low mood, poor quality of life & high symptom impact in adolescents attending a tertiary service for CFS\/ME"},"content":{"rendered":"

Research abstract:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Prevalence and correlates of low mood, poor quality of life and\u00a0high symptom impact in adolescents attending a tertiary service\u00a0for chronic fatigue syndrome\/myalgic encephalomyelitis,<\/a> by\u00a0FK Neale, TY Segal, DS Hargreaves in<\/span> Archives of Disease in Childhood<\/em> Vol 103, Suppl 1, G13,\u00a0March 2018<\/p>\n

Background:<\/strong>
\nChronic Fatigue Syndrome\/Myalgic\u2009Encephalomyelitis (CFS\/ME) is a\u00a0condition characterised by persistent fatigue that reduces activity and\u00a0affects everyday life. It is associated with mood disorders, such as\u00a0depression and anxiety, and a reduction in quality of life.<\/p>\n

Aims:<\/strong>
\nThis project describes the demographic of adolescents with CFS\/ME being\u00a0treated at a specialist service and their mood, quality of life and\u00a0symptom impact. It assesses whether sex, age, Body Mass Index, household\u00a0income and illness duration are associated with low mood, poor quality\u00a0of life and greater symptom impact. It investigates the similarity
\nbetween the adolescents’ and their parents’ views of the impact of\u00a0CFS\/ME.<\/p>\n

Methods:<\/strong>
\n69 adolescents, (10.4-18.0 years), were assessed at their initial clinic\u00a0appointment using a three-part questionnaire. Their parents received one\u00a0part of this questionnaire separately. The questionnaire was comprised\u00a0of three survey instruments which had been previously validated for use\u00a0in adolescents. Additional data about the adolescents was collected from
\ntheir clinic assessment form.<\/p>\n

Results:<\/strong>
\n69.6% of the adolescents were female, 13.0% were obese or very obese and\u00a0mean illness duration was 25.3 months. 36.2% of the adolescents came\u00a0from a household within the 10% most affluent in the country. Moderate,\u00a0severe or extreme anxiety or depression symptoms were reported by 39.1%,\u00a0severe levels of worry by 43.5% and high or very high symptom impact by\u00a069.1%. Long illness duration was significantly associated with low mood\u00a0(p=0.006) but no other associations were significant. There was minimal\u00a0 agreement between the adolescents’ and parents’ answers (mean kappa\u00a0score=0.373) with the parents reporting CFS\/ME to cause greater\u00a0difficulties.<\/p>\n

Conclusions:<\/strong>
\nAdolescents from high-income backgrounds are over-represented amongst\u00a0adolescents attending this specialist clinic. This may represent higher\u00a0prevalence or greater access to specialist services in high-income\u00a0families. More than a third of adolescents attending this clinic reported significantly reduced quality of life and\/or low or anxious\u00a0mood symptoms; more than two thirds reported that the condition has a\u00a0major impact on their daily life. Parents report CFS\/ME to cause greater\u00a0difficulties than their children do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Research abstract: Prevalence and correlates of low mood, poor quality of life and\u00a0high symptom impact in adolescents attending a tertiary service\u00a0for chronic fatigue syndrome\/myalgic encephalomyelitis, by\u00a0FK Neale, TY Segal, DS Hargreaves in Archives of Disease in Childhood Vol 103, Suppl … Continue reading →<\/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":[4270,838,257,321,4272,4271,4273,2869,1074,427],"class_list":["post-15899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-adolecents","tag-anxiety","tag-children","tag-depression","tag-dougal-hargreaves","tag-dr-terry-segal","tag-fk-neale","tag-mood-disorders","tag-quality-of-life","tag-teenagers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-48r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15899","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=15899"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15915,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15899\/revisions\/15915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}