{"id":18397,"date":"2018-10-28T04:22:36","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T04:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=18397"},"modified":"2018-11-08T04:25:35","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T04:25:35","slug":"does-fatigue-distress-in-a-clinical-cohort-of-adolescents-with-cfs-correlate-with-fatigue-and-distress-in-their-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/does-fatigue-distress-in-a-clinical-cohort-of-adolescents-with-cfs-correlate-with-fatigue-and-distress-in-their-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"Does fatigue & distress in a clinical cohort of adolescents with CFS correlate with fatigue and distress in their parents?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Does fatigue and distress in a clinical cohort of adolescents\u00a0with CFS correlate with fatigue and distress in their parents?<\/a> by\u00a0Maria E Loades, Katherine\u00a0 A Rimes, S Ali, Kate Lievesley,\u00a0Trudie Chalder in<\/span>\u00a0Child: Care, Health and Development,\u00a0<\/em>20 Oct 2018 [preprint]<\/h3>\n

Research abstract:<\/p>\n

Objectives<\/strong>
\nPrevious studies have found that parents of children with CFS are more\u00a0fatigued, and mothers are more distressed than healthy controls.\u00a0Managing the disabling symptoms of CFS can result in disruption and\u00a0burden for the family. Most research has focused on mothers. This study\u00a0sought to further explore the associations between adolescent fatigue
\nand distress, and parental fatigue and distress, as well as family\u00a0functioning, including both mothers and fathers.<\/p>\n

Design<\/strong>
\nCross\u2010sectional study of a clinical cohort of consecutive attenders at a\u00a0specialist chronic fatigue unit.<\/p>\n

Methods<\/strong>
\nQuestionnaires were completed by adolescents (N=115, age 11-18) with a\u00a0confirmed diagnosis of CFS and their mothers (N=100) and fathers (N=65)..<\/p>\n

Results<\/strong>
\nMaternal fatigue was significantly correlated with maternal distress,\u00a0but not with adolescent fatigue, depression, anxiety or functioning.<\/p>\n

This pattern held true for paternal fatigue. Maternal and paternal\u00a0anxiety and depression were significantly correlated with family\u00a0functioning. Paternal and maternal distress were correlated with each\u00a0other. Mothers and fathers tended to have a consistent view of family
\nfunctioning. Family functioning, specifically being overwhelmed by\u00a0difficulties and scoring lower on strengths and adaptability was\u00a0positively associated with adolescent depression. Unexpectedly, higher\u00a0levels of adolescent fatigue and poorer physical functioning were
\nassociated with better family functioning as rated by the mother.<\/p>\n

Conclusions<\/strong>
\nParents of adolescents with fatigue scored near to or within normative\u00a0range for non\u2010clinical samples on distress, fatigue and family\u00a0functioning. Parental distress may contribute to or result from poorer\u00a0family functioning. Family functioning, particularly building strengths\u00a0and adaptability, may be clinically important in CFS, as well as
\nattending to parental, (particularly paternal) distress in families\u00a0where adolescents are low in mood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Does fatigue and distress in a clinical cohort of adolescents\u00a0with CFS correlate with fatigue and distress in their parents? by\u00a0Maria E Loades, Katherine\u00a0 A Rimes, S Ali, Kate Lievesley,\u00a0Trudie Chalder in\u00a0Child: Care, Health and Development,\u00a020 Oct 2018 [preprint] Research abstract: … 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":[3000,2733,3175,3407],"class_list":["post-18397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-kate-lievesley","tag-katherine-a-rimes","tag-maria-e-loades","tag-prof-trudie-chalder"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-4MJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18397","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=18397"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18551,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18397\/revisions\/18551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}