{"id":28492,"date":"2020-10-29T08:57:10","date_gmt":"2020-10-29T08:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=28492"},"modified":"2020-10-29T08:57:10","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T08:57:10","slug":"cfs-me-in-children-aged-5-to-11-years-a-qualitative-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/cfs-me-in-children-aged-5-to-11-years-a-qualitative-study\/","title":{"rendered":"CFS\/ME in children aged 5 to 11 years: a qualitative study"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chronic fatigue syndrome\/myalgic encephalomyelitis in children aged 5 to 11 years: a qualitative study,<\/a> by Amberly Brigden, Alison Shaw, Emma Anderson, Esther Crawley in<\/span> Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry<\/em> Oct 2020 [doi:10.1177\/1359104520964528]<\/h3>\n

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

Treatments for paediatric chronic fatigue syndrome\/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS\/ME) have not been designed or evaluated for younger children (5\u201311-years). The development of a complex intervention for this population requires an in-depth understanding of the perspectives and psychosocial context of children and families.<\/p>\n

\"\"Children with CFS\/ME (5\u201311-years) and their families were recruited from a specialist CFS\/ME service, and interviewed using semi-structured topic guides. Data were analysed thematically. Twenty-two participants were interviewed; eight parents, two children (aged nine and ten) and six parent-child dyads (aged 5\u201311-years).<\/p>\n

Theme 1<\/strong>: CFS\/ME in younger children is complex and disabling.<\/p>\n

Theme 2<\/strong>: Children aged eight and over (in comparison to those under eight) were more able to describe their illness, engage in clinical consultation, understand diagnosis and self-manage.<\/p>\n

Theme 3<\/strong>: Parents of children under eight took full responsibility for their child\u2019s treatment. As children got older, this increasingly became a joint effort between the parent and child.<\/p>\n

Parents felt unsupported in their caring role. Clinicians should consider different treatment approaches for children under eight, focusing on: parent-only clinical sessions, training parents to deliver treatment, and increasing support for parents. Children over eight may benefit from tools to help them understand diagnosis, treatment and aids for self-management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chronic fatigue syndrome\/myalgic encephalomyelitis in children aged 5 to 11 years: a qualitative study, by Amberly Brigden, Alison Shaw, Emma Anderson, Esther Crawley in Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry Oct 2020 [doi:10.1177\/1359104520964528]   Research abstract: Treatments for paediatric chronic fatigue … 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":[3491,5969,257,416,5560,4693],"class_list":["post-28492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-alison-shaw","tag-amberly-bridgen","tag-children","tag-dr-esther-crawley","tag-emma-anderson","tag-paediatric-cfs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-7py","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28492","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=28492"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28534,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28492\/revisions\/28534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}