Cognitive behaviour therapy reduced fatigue severity and functional impairment in chronic fatigue syndrome

Cognitive behaviour therapy in chronic fatigue syndrome.

Fifty patients fulfilling operational criteria for the chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), and who had been ill for a mean of five years, were offered cognitive behaviour therapy in an open trial. Those fulfilling operational criteria for depressive illness were also offered tricyclic antidepressants. The rationale was that a distinction be drawn between factors that precipitate the illness and tho...

Cognitive behavior therapy for chronic fatigue syndrome.

Neurocognitive impairment in childhood chronic fatigue syndrome

Neurocognitive impairment is a feature of childhood chronic fatigue syndrome (CCFS). Several studies have demonstrated reduced attention control in CCFS patients in switching and divided attention tasks. In students, the extent of deterioration in task performance depends on the level of fatigue. Poor performance in switching and divided attention is common in both fatigued students and CCFS pa...

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy in Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: the Role of Illness Acceptance and Neuroticism

How does cognitive behaviour therapy reduce fatigue in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome? The role of physical activity.

BACKGROUND Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) is known to reduce fatigue severity in chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). How this change in symptomatology is accomplished is not yet understood. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether the effect of CBT on fatigue is mediated by an increase in physical activity. METHOD Three randomized controlled trials were reanalysed, previously ...