{"id":9150,"date":"2016-07-29T07:53:53","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T07:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=9150"},"modified":"2016-07-29T07:53:53","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T07:53:53","slug":"interdisciplinary-group-treatment-may-improve-quality-of-life-in-cfsme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/interdisciplinary-group-treatment-may-improve-quality-of-life-in-cfsme\/","title":{"rendered":"Interdisciplinary group treatment may improve quality of life in CFS\/ME"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Research highlights:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Interdisciplinary group treatment may improve quality of life in CFS\/ME.<\/li>\n<li>Psychological Flexibility (PF) has applied utility in the treatment of CFS\/ME.<\/li>\n<li>Changes in PF activity\/occupational engagement suggest greatest benefit in CFS\/ME.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Research \u00a0abstract:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Objective:<\/strong>\u00a0Psychological Flexibility (PF) is a relatively new concept in physical health. It can be defined as an overarching process of being able to accept the presence of wanted\/unwanted experiences, choosing whether to change or persist in behaviour in response to those experiences. Associations between processes of PF and quality of life (QoL) have been found in long-term health conditions such as chronic pain, PF has not yet been applied to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome\/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (CFS\/ME).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Methods:<\/strong>\u00a0Changes in PF, fatigue severity and QoL were examined in one hundred and sixty-five patients with CFS\/ME engaged in a six-week outpatient interdisciplinary group treatment programme. Participants were assessed using a series of self-report measures at the start of the start (T1) and end of a six-week programme (T2) and at six months follow up (T3).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Results:\u00a0<\/strong>Significant changes in PF and QoL were observed from pre-treatment (T1) to post treatment follow-up (T2 and T3); changes in fatigue severity were observed from T1 to T3 only. Controlling for fatigue severity, changes in the PF dimension of activity\/ occupational engagement were associated with improvement in QoL at six month follow up (T3) but not at six weeks post programme (T2).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conclusion:<\/strong>\u00a0Findings indicate an interdisciplinary group treatment approach for people with CFS\/ME may be associated with improved QoL, processes of PF and fatigue severity, supporting a link between PF and long term health conditions. Results highlight links between PF and patient QoL in CFS\/ME and the value of interdisciplinary treatment approaches in this patient population.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0022399916303506\" target=\"_blank\">Enhanced psychological flexibility and improved quality of life in chronic fatigue syndrome\/ myalgic encephalomyelitis<\/a>, by\u00a0Sarah Densham,Deborah Williams, Anne Johnson, Julie M. Turner-Cobb <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">in<\/span>\u00a0<em>Journal of Psychosomatic Research<\/em>\u00a0Vol 88, Sep 2016, Pp 42\u201347 [Published online: July 2016]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research highlights: Interdisciplinary group treatment may improve quality of life in CFS\/ME. Psychological Flexibility (PF) has applied utility in the treatment of CFS\/ME. Changes in PF activity\/occupational engagement suggest greatest benefit in CFS\/ME. Research \u00a0abstract: Objective:\u00a0Psychological Flexibility (PF) is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/interdisciplinary-group-treatment-may-improve-quality-of-life-in-cfsme\/\">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":[2954,2955,2953,1073,1074],"class_list":["post-9150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-acceptance","tag-interdisciplinary-group-treatment","tag-psychological-flexibility","tag-qol","tag-quality-of-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-2nA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9150","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=9150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9196,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9150\/revisions\/9196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}