{"id":23305,"date":"2019-12-05T09:18:55","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T09:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=23305"},"modified":"2020-02-02T21:19:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T21:19:47","slug":"prevalence-treatment-of-cfs-me-co-morbid-severe-health-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/prevalence-treatment-of-cfs-me-co-morbid-severe-health-anxiety\/","title":{"rendered":"Prevalence & treatment of CFS\/ME & co-morbid severe health anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prevalence and treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome\/ME and co-morbid severe health Anxiety<\/a>, by Jolene Daniels, Paul Salkovskis, Hannah Parker\u00a0 in<\/span> Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, <\/em>Nov 2019<\/h3>\n

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

Background:<\/strong> Chronic Fatigue Syndrome\/ME (CFS\/ME) is a debilitating condition that affects 0.2\u20130.4% of the population.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Health focussed anxiety is common across medical conditions, and may be relevant in CFS\/ME. This study sought to identify\u00a0the prevalence and impact of health anxiety (HA) in CFS\/ME and evaluate the effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for HA in CFS\/ME.<\/p>\n

Method:<\/strong> Cross sectional questionnaire methods and case-series design were used to achieve study aims.<\/p>\n

Results:<\/strong> Analysis indicated that 41.9% of the CFS\/ME clinic sample experienced threshold levels of health anxiety, which was associated with elevated symptom severity across several dimensions.\u00a0 Stepwise multiple regression indicated physical functioning and depression accounted for 23.8% of variance in fatigue; depression, fatigue and HA, accounted for 32.9% of variance in physical functioning. Large effect sizes and clinically significant changes were generated in the treatment study.<\/p>\n

Conclusion:<\/strong> HA is common in CFS\/ME and likely to exacerbate fatigue and physical functioning. This study identifies HA as an important target for treatment, trial findings should be further replicated on a larger scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prevalence and treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome\/ME and co-morbid severe health Anxiety, by Jolene Daniels, Paul Salkovskis, Hannah Parker\u00a0 in Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, Nov 2019   Research abstract: Background: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome\/ME (CFS\/ME) is a debilitating condition … 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":[11,426,5426,3580,5428,5427],"class_list":["post-23305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-cbt","tag-cognitive-behavioural-therapy","tag-hannah-parker","tag-health-anxiety","tag-jolene-daniels","tag-paul-salkovskis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-63T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23305","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=23305"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24193,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23305\/revisions\/24193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}