{"id":18451,"date":"2018-10-26T12:14:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T12:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=18451"},"modified":"2018-10-26T12:19:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T12:19:47","slug":"the-development-of-an-instrument-to-assess-post-exertional-malaise-in-patients-with-me-cfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/the-development-of-an-instrument-to-assess-post-exertional-malaise-in-patients-with-me-cfs\/","title":{"rendered":"The development of an instrument to assess post-exertional malaise in\u00a0patients with ME &#038; CFS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/1359105318805819\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The development of an instrument to assess post-exertional malaise in\u00a0patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome<\/a>, by Leonard A Jason, Carly S Holtzman, Madison Sunnquist, Joseph Cotler <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">in<\/span>\u00a0Journal of Health Psychology, 24 Oct 2018 [Preprint]<\/h3>\n<h2><strong>Research abstract:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-14584 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/What-is-PEM-210x300.jpg?resize=210%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/What-is-PEM.jpg?resize=210%2C300&amp;ssl=1 210w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/What-is-PEM.jpg?resize=105%2C150&amp;ssl=1 105w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/What-is-PEM.jpg?w=420&amp;ssl=1 420w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 210px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 210\/300;\" \/>Post-exertional malaise, or a variation of this term, is a key symptom\u00a0of myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome, as this\u00a0symptom is mentioned in almost all myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome case definitions.<\/p>\n<p>Until now there has not been a comprehensive questionnaire to assess post-exertional malaise. To rectify this situation, in this article we describe the development of a new questionnaire, called the DePaul Post-Exertional Malaise Questionnaire, which was based on input from hundreds of patients.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary validation was provided by the findings of significant and predictable relationships between different domains of this\u00a0post-exertional malaise questionnaire and physical functioning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/327580025_A_Brief_Questionnaire_to_Assess_Post-Exertional_Malaise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download full text pdf from this link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The development of an instrument to assess post-exertional malaise in\u00a0patients with myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome, by Leonard A Jason, Carly S Holtzman, Madison Sunnquist, Joseph Cotler in\u00a0Journal of Health Psychology, 24 Oct 2018 [Preprint] Research abstract: Post-exertional malaise, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/the-development-of-an-instrument-to-assess-post-exertional-malaise-in-patients-with-me-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":[602,4685,4684,603,4614,3064,584,585,2241],"class_list":["post-18451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-assessment-of-symptoms","tag-carly-s-holtzman","tag-carly-s-holzman","tag-depaul-symptom-questionnaire","tag-joseph-cotler","tag-madison-l-sunnquist","tag-pem","tag-post-exertional-malaise","tag-prof-leonard-jason"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-4NB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18451","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=18451"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18454,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18451\/revisions\/18454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}