Making sense of chronic fatigue syndrome: Patients' accounts of onset
العنوان: | Making sense of chronic fatigue syndrome: Patients' accounts of onset |
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المؤلفون: | Florence Akingbade, Susanne Simon, Sally Jeffefues, Colette Ray, Kay Hayes, William R. C. Weir, Penny Marriott |
المصدر: | Psychology & Health. 13:99-109 |
بيانات النشر: | Informa UK Limited, 1998. |
سنة النشر: | 1998 |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | medicine.medical_specialty, Gradual onset, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, medicine, Chronic fatigue syndrome, In patient, General Medicine, General Chemistry, Attribution, Psychology, Psychiatry, medicine.disease, Applied Psychology |
الوصف: | Sixty patients with chronic fatigue syndrome were interviewed about the onset of their illness, and the factors which they felt had contributed to that onset. Common themes in these qualitative data were episodes of infection, “doing too much” and stressful circumstances; in two-thirds of cases, accounts encompassed physical, behavioural and psychological factors. Patients described a gradual, sharp or phased onset, the latter involving a sharp onset but with a short term lifting of symptoms before worsening into chronic illness. A gradual onset was associated with longer duration of illness. Particular themes played a different role in patients' accounts, depending upon onset pattern. With a sharp or phased onset the most common perceived bigger for the abrupt change in health status was an episode of infection, but preceding factors were often invoked to explain the effect that this had had. With a phased onset, subsequent compounding factors (typically overdoing things) were similarly cited to... |
تدمد: | 1476-8321 0887-0446 |
URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::4d658721c695e9e8cb6ea6f7c870d7b0 https://doi.org/10.1080/08870449808406134 |
رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........4d658721c695e9e8cb6ea6f7c870d7b0 |
قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
تدمد: | 14768321 08870446 |
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