{"id":9570,"date":"2016-08-29T06:32:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T06:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/?p=9570"},"modified":"2016-08-29T06:32:05","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T06:32:05","slug":"post-exertional-malaise-an-exploratory-factor-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/post-exertional-malaise-an-exploratory-factor-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-exertional malaise: an exploratory factor analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Research abstract:<\/h3>\n<p>Post-exertional malaise is a cardinal symptom of myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome. There are two differing focuses when defining <a href=\"http:\/\/me-pedia.org\/wiki\/Post-exertional_malaise\" target=\"_blank\">post-exertional malaise:<\/a> a generalized, full-body fatigue and a muscle-specific fatigue.<\/p>\n<p>This study aimed to discern whether post-exertional malaise is a unified construct or whether it is composed of two smaller constructs, muscle fatigue and generalized fatigue. An <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Exploratory_factor_analysis\" target=\"_blank\">exploratory factor analysis <\/a>was conducted on several symptoms that assess post-exertional malaise. The results suggest that post-exertional malaise is composed of two empirically different experiences, one for generalized fatigue and one for muscle-specific fatigue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hpq.sagepub.com\/content\/early\/2016\/08\/23\/1359105316664139.abstract\" target=\"_blank\">Deconstructing post-exertional malaise: An exploratory factor analysis<\/a>, by Stephanie L McManimen, Madison L Sunnquist, Leonard A Jason in J Health Psychol August 24, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research abstract: Post-exertional malaise is a cardinal symptom of myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome. There are two differing focuses when defining post-exertional malaise: a generalized, full-body fatigue and a muscle-specific fatigue. This study aimed to discern whether post-exertional malaise &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/post-exertional-malaise-an-exploratory-factor-analysis\/\">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":[9,3066,3064,1633,584,585,2241,3065],"class_list":["post-9570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-chronic-fatigue","tag-exploratory-factor-analysis","tag-madison-l-sunnquist","tag-muscle-fatigue","tag-pem","tag-post-exertional-malaise","tag-prof-leonard-jason","tag-stephanie-l-mcmanimen"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5qkYK-2um","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9570","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=9570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9573,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9570\/revisions\/9573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wames.org.uk\/cms-english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}