{"id":2610,"date":"2014-01-21T00:12:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T00:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=2610"},"modified":"2014-01-21T00:12:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T00:12:36","slug":"medical-students-views-of-cfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/medical-students-views-of-cfs\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical students\u2019 views of CFS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Abstract\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chronic fatigue syndrome receives little attention in the medical curriculum. This study explores UK medical students\u2019 knowledge of and attitudes towards chronic fatigue syndrome.<\/p>\n<p>Semi-structured interviews (average length 22 minutes) were conducted with 21 participants (7 females and 14 males) in years 3 (n=4), 4 (n=11) and 5 (n=6) of their studies. Inductive thematic analysis taking a realist perspective produced three themes: limited knowledge, influences on attitudes and training needs.<\/p>\n<p>Students acquired their knowledge and attitudes largely from informal sources and expressed difficulty understanding chronic fatigue syndrome within a traditional biomedical framework. Incorporating teaching about chronic fatigue syndrome into the medical curriculum within the context of a biopsychosocial understanding of illness could encourage more positive attitudes towards chronic fatigue syndrome.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Understanding medical students' views of CFS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/24058124\" target=\"_blank\">Understanding medical students\u2019 views of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A qualitative study <\/a>by Alexandra Laura Stenhoff, Shireen Sadreddini, Sarah Peters, Alison Wearden<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> in<\/span> the <em>Journal of Health Psychology<\/em>, 20 September 2013. (e-published before print)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract\u00a0 Chronic fatigue syndrome receives little attention in the medical curriculum. This study explores UK medical students\u2019 knowledge of and attitudes towards chronic fatigue syndrome. Semi-structured interviews (average length 22 minutes) were conducted with 21 participants (7 females and 14 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/medical-students-views-of-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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-G6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610","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=2610"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2764,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions\/2764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}