Development of a measure of symptoms in chronic fatigue syndrome: The profile of fatigue-related symptoms(pfrs)

Autor:	Colette Ray, Sarah Phillips, Sarah Cullen, William R. C. Weir
Rok vydání:	1992
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Cognition General Medicine General Chemistry medicine.disease Emotional distress Internal consistency Etiology Physical therapy medicine Chronic fatigue syndrome Illness severity Psychology Applied Psychology
Zdroj:	Psychology & Health. 7:27-43
ISSN:	1476-8321 0887-0446
DOI:	10.1080/08870449208404293
Popis:	Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a disorder of uncertain aetiology which attracts increasing research interest. This paper describes the development of a multidimensional measure incorporating the diverse symptoms associated with the illness. The Profile of Fatigue-Related Symptoms (PFRS) has four scales: emotional distress, cognitive difficulty, fatigue and somatic symptoms. These showed good convergence with comparison measures, high reliability and high internal consistency. CFS patients had markedly elevated scores compared with a student comparison group, and these scores correlated with indices of illness severity. The PFRS is a short and easily administered measure which, it is suggested, may be used to assess patients in terms of the severity and pattern of their disorder, to relate subjective symptoms to immunological and other findings, to evaluate the effects of treatments, and to compare the symptomatology of CFS with that in other fatiguing illnesses.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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